Raquette
3) Hannawa Falls dam to powerhouse
| Difficulty | IV-V |
| Length | 0.5 mi |
| Avg Gradient | n/a |
| Gauge | Raquette River at Raymondville Ny |
| Flow Rate as of 1 hour | 3650 cfsabove recommended |
| Reach Info Last Updated | March 22, 2026 |
River Description
A large park and huck below the dam. Not much is known about this section. Please leave a comment if you have more information.
The guage used is located well downstream of this section. It is possible this section spills before or after the Stone Valley Releases.
We're looking for info about this reach! Please comment below if you have additional information.
Potsdam - Malone Area Reaches
Chateaugay Deer (Dickinson Center)
Deer (Dickinson Center to Lawrenceville) Grass (1. Lampsons Falls to Downerville)
Raquette Sec. 3) Hannawa FallsRaquette 2) Piercefield to Parmenter Site
Raquette Sec. 4) Stone Valley Salmon
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...River Features
Put In
in the parking lot on mills street you walk down the path about 50 feet and there is what looks to be an old road down to the bottom of the Hanawa Falls dam. put in is flat water.
Take Out
there is many options for take out, pull off the river off the river on river left after the boogie water takes a left hand turn and find the path and walk to the car or you can go another half mile to the dam take out on river left and walk to the car or hit the class 2 after the dam and find the bridge over the water pipe.(north entrance on map) if you are next to a giant surge tank you went too far.
Trip Reports
Log in to add a reportplease take all the information on the class V stuff that I added with a grain of salt as I am a class II boater. starting off looking at the falls was absloutly menecing but cool boogie water below was what we where here for. we walked down to the river just down stream of the view point of the falls with the goal to paddle to clarkson campus. the first 2000 feet were really nice class 2, then there was flat water till sugar flow where we played around with the ice still on the lake. following that we put into the eddie below the sugar flow dam where one person in our group flipped and and swam in the flat water back to the shore 5 feet away. once re oriented we paddled the 500 feet of class 1-2 before passing the take out mentioned in the discriptio and following the river down into the class 1 where we wheel chaired for about half a mile. once on the resivour the wind picked up the sun went down, and we slowly paddled back to the car in town in complete darkness. NOTE all pictures taken were the day before at 3160 cfs, I forgot the actual level of the water when I was going down.