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Santeetlah Dam to Calderwood Lake Boat Launch

PUT IN:
35.3928, -83.8652

TAKE OUT:
35.4507, -83.943

SECTION CLASS:
4 - 5 (Normal Flow)

SECTION LENGTH:
9.25 miles

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Santeetlah Dam to Calderwood Lake Boat Launch Features

Mile Name Class

Calderwood Boat Ramp

The Lake

8.6

Yard Sale

8.4

Tapoco Lodge Rapid

7.6

Rapids below Bear Creek

7.53

Bear Creek Rapid (The Hole)

5.0

7.52

Bear Creek - The left side of the Island.

4.5

7.51

Bear Creek Rapid (The Slide)

4.5

7.5

The Falls

4.5

7.4

Entrance to Bear Creek Rapid

4.5

7.1

Rod's Hole

The Forest Service Bridge

6.1

The easy stuff

The deadend pool

Land of Holes

4.5

Typical Rapid on the Middle Cheoah - Yellow Creek Rapid.

3.5

Typical Upper Cheoah Scene

Takeout/First Drop

Takeout/Entrance

3.1

Takeout

4.5

2.9

Wilma's Ledge aka God's Dam

4.5

2.89

Swinging Bridge Rapid

3.5

2.85

The rapid above the pipe

Joannes Grocery

0.7

Craik's Ledge

3.5

First diversion pipe

Put-In

SOURCE American Whitewater

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