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Description

This river is the US/Canadian border. The put-in is on tribal land (of the Grand Portage band Ojibway) and may be disputed. (Recommend putting in 150 yards downstream of former bridge, to reduce possible conflicts with property owner.) Portage (for all mortal boaters) at Pigeon Falls. Take out is near customs station. Jason Stingl provides (2005-07-01): _There is a waterfall on the Pigeon that is accessable from the Canadian side. I think it is called Middle Falls. It is about 15 feet or so and kind of a horse shoe shaped drop. There is a hole upstream of the drop about 200 yards that might be fun in a playboat if you weren't too worried about the drop below (there is a rock-bar downsteam of the hole so it would be pretty safe). Not sure what level it comes in at. I think I ran it around 1500 cfs. Probably a class IV._