Great Miami

Little or no technical expertise required. One or two tight turns, at least one with a strainer. Be alert, however, for strong cross-currents at confluences of divided current. These can tend to be grabby at higher water levels.

Undecked canoes will likely take on significant water at higher levels if they choose to run the taller haystacks. Easier routes are almost always available, however.

The safest routes under Blue Rock Bridge to avoid the strainers on the bridge abutments are either all the way river right or river left. River right is the easiest, but misses the play spot under the bridge on river left. This play spot washes out above 3000 cfs or so.

Eggleston Park is another put-in that is perhaps a quarter mile shorter. The first rapid after that put-in has a great set of ferry waves that run most of the width of the river. You can leave a bicycle at Dravo Park and ride back to your car easily. Some decent waves and generally continuous rapids until the takeout river left at the old bridge abutments. A fun run for the whole family with relatively big water in comparison to the Little Miami or Whitewater rivers.