Big Rib

great level

Ran this yesterday at 2490 cfs and falling. Lots of big waves and a rapid that was almost a quarter-mile long. Everything is boat scoutable but look out for trees. Run the dells center left. A lot of fun and the best part is you can likely run it with even more water than this. I would highly recommend it! Additionally the Google map has the take out road named incorrectly. The take out is Silver Fox road. The shuttle is Hwy. 64 to Greiner Rd (NOT Grinder Rd. There is NO Grinder Rd in the area) to Silver Fox. Take Silver Fox until you get as close to the river as possible. The roads are logging roads may not be great after rain or in the spring.

Ran this river in flood about eight years ago and it was awesome. Huge standing waves develop throughout the run and looks nothing like its usual self. I highly recommend doing the triple decker and run this, the Prairie, and Pine Creek all together in the same day if you are boating in the Wausau area. They have to be high flows for the difficulty and excitement to increase but I recall Pine Creek being quite beautiful in a mini canyon.

See other photo of put-in visual gauge for level.The dells was at a good level along with many of the other rivers based off the Prairie Gauge.