Windy Run
Military Road to Potomac River
| Difficulty | V+ |
| Length | 0.5 mi |
| Avg Gradient | n/a |
| Gauge | Fourmile Run at Alexandria, Va |
| Flow Rate as of 10 minutes | 37 cfsbelow recommended |
| Reach Info Last Updated | November 2, 2025 |
River Description
Very small and tight with plenty of wood. Moves very fast and there are few eddies. mostly class two and three until the final waterfall. Questionably runnable, but definitely has never been run before. Put in at Windy Run Park off Military Road and run it to the Potomac. There is a trail alongside the run to hike. Bobby Miller is the only person I have ever heard talk about running this.
Lat/longitude coords are an estimate, from TopoZone.
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Log in to add a reportKinda looks like Crazy Creek falls here in Harpers Ferry, unrunnable, unless the potomac is up around 20' plus, pads out the landing zone. Good luck running that horrendous looking thing!
erik you are nuts. that is the mankiest drop of all the potomac creeks, and thats saying something. you would want the potomac to be flooded to raise the level of the/create a hint of a pool at the bottom so you land in water...I doubt it is ever run. sucessfully.
Would be totally good to go with a deeper landing pool
Wendy Run Falls maybe runnable despite a very tricky approach. The current pushes hard right to left and spreads the flow over shallow rocks at the lip of the drop. You would want to be on the inside right corner and fall into the slot next to the sloping slide on the top left porsion of the falls. You would then be prapelled ten feet onto a leftward sloping rock for a sumwhat hard clapper and then rickashaded right where you would want to be into the landing pool. Minus the long wedged in the middle of the falls and all the boulders in the landing pool that make it to shallow to even land flat into, it could be done with some rearanging. The hieght of the falls is somewhere around 35 - 40 feet.
Everything else has been run but the final drop, the only drop. Maybe runnable?
Boney