Whitewater Run MI Class I-II

Fishing Site #1 Road to unnamed road/campground (6.85 miles)

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Gauge Conditions
Sturgeon River near Sidnaw, MI Upstream Primary
Runnable: ? – ? CFS
Approximate reading: This gauge is 17.7 miles away on Net. Use as a general reference only.
Data from American Whitewater & USGS
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Description
The put-in is marked on topo maps as "Boat Ramp", and "Fishing Site#1". The take-out is marked on topos as "CAMPSITE". Various marked rapids (unnamed, at least on maps) plus a couple named rapids and a named falls (really much more of a chute/rapids) populate this stretch. Expect this to be a flatwater trip, punctuated by (mostly brief) areas of rapids. (But, then, doesn't that describe so many Upper Midwest whitewater rivers?)
Difficulty
Class I-II
Length
7.1 mi
Gradient
6 ft/mi
max 10
Rapids
12
Access Points
Put-in
46.3299, -88.5319
Take-out
46.2542, -88.5871
Shuttle Info
As listed by GoogleMaps, this shuttle is more than 50 minutes (each way). We highly recommend meeting at take-out, gearing up, swapping boats and boaters to as few vehicles as possible (to leave 'drop vehicles' there), then driving to put-in to run river. This gets you on water without the delay which would result from meeting at put-in, having to run shuttle down and back up (while some boaters wait an hour-and-a-half to two hours) before putting on river!
Difficulty Classes
I Easy II Novice III Intermediate IV Advanced V Expert/Extreme VI Unrunnable
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater