Entrance Rapid

This straightforward class III rapid marks the entrance to the Indian Point Gorge. Murderer's Gulch comes in on river right at the bottom of the rapid. If you have doubts, this is the last place to exit the river, although you will have to bushwhack up the gulch through poison oak to get to the road or, perhaps more simply, walk back upstream the access by the Schwartz's rock garage. The next 1/2 mile is the steepest section of the North Fork and has a series of large rapids, including the largest, most congested rapid in the watershed.