Gunpowder Falls
2 - Prettyboy Dam to Falls Road or Masemore Rd.(Gunpowder Gorge)
August 5, 2018
| Reporter | Tom DuBois |
My son (call him a class II boater) and I ran this in the 200-250 CFS range. This is a particularly pretty stretch of river. There's a path river right (as well as paths higher up too), and I recommend it as a hiking spot in addition to a paddling one. At this level there were some fishermen, but not a lot. They were just getting started at about 10:30.
Most of the rapids were class I or II-, except for a stretch with four creeky-feeling ones in a row that I would call III-. This would be a really good beginner river if there was a little more recovery space between them.