Toutle, S. Fork
Harrington Place to Big Wolf Creek
| Difficulty | II-III |
| Length | 17.1 mi |
| Avg Gradient | n/a |
| Gauge | South Fork Toutle River at Toutle, Wa |
| Flow Rate as of 4617 days | 2550 cfsstale data |
| Reach Info Last Updated | April 16, 2007 |
River Description
For current gate information for the runs in the Toutle tree farm call 1-866-636-6531 (hit 2, then 2 again, and listen to the options)
Lat/Longitude data are very approximate.
River Features
Put In
Take Out
Trip Reports
Log in to add a reportNot too sure about this. The upper 6.6 miles above the gate drops at 220 feet per mile. I've never seen a gradient that high that was less than class 5. The lower 10.5 miles drops at 65FPM.
Joe's comments on 4/16/07 are correct. I regularly raft this for my work and this section below the locked 4100 road bridge may have a class II but mostly I's all the way down. I believe the associated map is also incorrect; Herrington Place is down more at the mouth of Herrington Creek itself; you should be able to access this coming in from the North on DNR property but I have never tried.
On 4/14/07 I drove to the SF with the intention of running it. However, the access road (Weyerhauser rd #4100) is closed at the bridge about 9 miles up Road 4100. This bridge is basically mid-way through the run and according to Korb's write up in Bennett serves as the 'uppermost takeout'. So the access to the upper 6 miles of the run (where most of the whitewater is) is gated off. You can run from this bridge down, but it looked mostly flat with some class 2-, so we headed to the NF instead.