Canaseraga to Dansville

Canaseraga Creek is known by few, but it is one of the finest whitewater creeks in Western New York. It is a seasonal class IV-V creek south of Rochester that drops a whopping 230 feet over 1.5 miles. Most of this altitude loss occurs over a series of nine stair-step waterfalls that range in total height from 10 feet to 40 feet. The "meat" of Canaseraga Creek occurs in the first 1.5 miles, deep in the Poags Hole canyon. The creek drops 230 feet over a series of nine stair-step waterfall drops. The creek has a relatively small watershed, meaning that the window of paddling opportunity is also relatively narrow. It floods periodically during the spring, and the highest recorded flood peak was 11,000 cfs on June 22, 1972. Two inexperienced paddlers lost their lives on Canaseraga Creek in separate incidents in 1999 when they washed into strainers. Finger Lakes Area Runs Bowman CreekCascadilla Creek Canandaigua Outlet Canaseraga Creek Canisteo Cayuga Lake Hole Cayuta Creek Conesus Creek Fall Creek (1.) Fall Creek (2.)Fall Creek (3.) Great Gully Creek Honeoye CreekIrondequoit Creek Keshequa Creek Keuka Outlet Lock 32 Whitewater Course Owasco River (Outlet) Salmon Creek Sixmile Creek Sugar Creek Taughannock Creek (1.) Taughannock Creek (2.) Trumansburg Creek Vanbuskirk Gulf Western New York Area Reaches Beaver Meadow Creek Canadaway Creek (1.) Canadaway Creek (2.) Canaseraga Creek Cattaraugus Creek Cattaraugus Creek, S. Branch Cazenovia Creek, W. Branch (1.)Cazenovia Creek, W. Branch (2.) Chautauqua Creek Clear Creek, N. Br. Conesus Creek Eighteenmile Creek Eighteenmile Creek, S. Br. Ellicott Creek Genesee (Letchworth) Honeoye Creek Keshequa Creek Little Chautauqua Creek Murder Creek Niagara Oak Orchard Creek Oatka Creek Rushford Lake Outlet Sugar Creek Twentymile Creek Google Map of New York Whitewater New York Whitewater Paddlers Facebook Group