| Difficulty | III-IV |
| Length | 6.6 mi |
| Avg Gradient | 150 fpm |
| Gauge | Little River Above Townsend, Tn |
| Flow Rate as of 9 minutes | 2.19 ftbelow recommended |
| Reach Info Last Updated | February 24, 2014 |
This is one of the best runs in the park, and no one ever does it. It runs alot too. It has excellent scenery and class 3-4 creeking. It is similar in difficulty to Upper Tremont, but lacks the bone jarring jank that Tremont is known for. The rock here is smoother and more naturally placed. There are tons of boofs in the 2-3 foot range and high quality rapids throughout, with a nice intense middle stretch of a half mile.
The hike to the putin is 3 miles, but is as easy as hiking with a boat ever gets. A shorter hike can be done 2.3 miles to Huskey Gap Branch Falls, a little feeder coming into the river from river left under a little wooden bridge. For more action that is worth the extra 10 minutes of hiking, continue up to where the big railroad tie bridge crosses the Little to river right. Cross and then putin here on hte upstream river right side.
After puting in there are a handfull of quality boulder rapids down to the short put in at Huskey Gap Branch Falls. If you are putting in here, you can slide in under the bridge and run the last 15 feet of the feeder falls. Its more fun than it looks. After this beautiful and clear pool, the river does several bends away from the trail. During the first bend, most rapids are class 3, but after a junky ledge next to a trailside bench, the second bend prooves more suprising. A bounty of great class 3-4 rapids appear in ever increasing succession, untill after several juicy sets, the big one appears.
Obvious f
...The river funnels down through a hole studded sluice in the center of the river. At the end of this sluice is a boiling drop that lands you into a undpredictable pourover. It flushes well, but inversions are common.
This is the biggie. Stay out of the center of the river is the theme here. Boof far right or run the sneak far left.
This rapid is deceptive. The standard line is to hit a monster boof into the river left eddy, before spinning back angled right and hitting a tight ferry back to the right above a broken ledge of macabre nature. Good class 4.
Mar 1, 2022
Their is a river wide tree in a busy section of river about a mile down from the put in. It's not viable on the hike up. It is visable from the river but it's in a very busy section of river, so heads up. Portage on river right.