Great Works

Visit this location frequently and have never seen it runnable. Half of what is highlighted on the map is flat water (From Lee High Pond to a few hundred feet before the abandoned mill/former hydro station off Brattle St) and there would be an utterly ridiculous portage around the mill/dam just to get to more flatwater on the Great Works River on the other side. Small section of what could be whitewater is so clogged with wood that it is visible on Google.

Access is difficult to this spot, From the dam below Brattle Street there is no access due to a disgruntled land owner who will stop anyone from the only access across his land. You can paddle across Leigh’s Mill Pond and scramble and rock climb through overgrown poison Ivy into the gorge from below but carrying a boat is near impossible. The couple hundred yards of rapids below the dam are unrunable in my opinion. There is lots of rebar and mill debris in the current as well as large concrete and granite blocks forming dangerous sieves. This is, however, one of the best and least known trout fishing spots in York County!