Calapooia

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Rules for accessing this section of the Calapooia are described below.  Do not run the upper Calapooia if you do not understand those rules.

Upper Calapooia Road

• The road is open to the public unless the gates are closed.  A notification on our website when we are going to close the gates.

• The road is posted no parking from the end of the pavement to the national forest boundary. Law enforcement is writing citations to anyone who violates the no parking restriction.

• There is no legal access to the river from the public road until you get into the national forest.

        . Weyerhaeuser is actively logging in the vicinity so be very cautious and watch out for log trucks

Before these rules were put in place this section was only paddleable during hunting season.  With the new rules you can paddle this section any day of the year, except when indicated on the Linn County Website. While still plenty manageable, the shuttle logistics are slightly unusual.  The first option is to have a shuttle driver drop you off at the put in.  This can be done 13 miles above the take out at a small spur.  Because you are not allowed to park anywhere along the road between the take out and National Forest Boundary, boaters need to gear up at the take out so they can be dropped off and get onto the water as quickly as possible.  The other option if you can't find a shuttle driver is to do the same thing, but after gear and boaters are dropped, one person drives the vehicles 3 miles further up the road to the National Forest Boundary and leaves the vehicle there.  The person then bikes or jogs the 3 miles back to the put in (the section between the NF boundary and put in has lots of wood and brush).

Below this put in there is about 1 mile of warm up

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