Beaver Creek

'If you get in Beaver Creek before Coward Mill Rd, you'll hit a pretty decent drop (Coward Mills Falls) that is a solid class 2/3 @ 400+ CFS with some decent rapids immediately flowing for the next 1/4-1/2 mile or so. The CMF doesn't appear to be runnable, except for a tight line on the right at anything below 200CFS. CMF is located at 35.96867874332763, -84.14744138717651, with an easy hike up the nearby railroad track to a put-in that is about 1/8 mile upstream.' First off, there is not really a very good place to park and leave your vehicle on Coward Mill Rd unless you are close friends with a home owner right there near the creek or you want to leave your vehicle on the East side of the bridge there. You can park right before the one lane bridge and walk your boat through the woods on the very short trail to the creek just after the falls and the bridge but I would not feel good at all about leaving a vehicle there unattended for half the day while paddling. Secondly, CMF does not appear to be runnable right now because of a fallen dead tree on river right where the dam is left open because of the natural rocks right there. As far as the other published 'put-in' on Solway Rd is concerned, you could park up the steep hill at 'Solway Park' about a block or two away from where you would have to first leave your boat there at Solway Rd bridge over Beaver Creek. The take-out spot described is also inaccessible but there is a public boat launch at Guinn Rd Park a couple miles plus downstream over flat water on Melton Hill Lake. Once I run it from the Coward Mill Road bridge to the Guinn Rd Park boat ramp, I will add another comment on how it went.