S. Ripley to Lake Erie

This is a really beautiful and challenging reach close to Erie. Like many other Erie tribs, this creek is in an isolated shale gorge with cliffs usually on one side or the other and bald eagles. If the ledge at the putin looks a little boney, but doable then you should be fine. If it doesn't look boney then you are in for a fast exhilerating run! Warm-up rapids start right at the putin with fun Class II's for the first couple of miles. After this the run picks up with some more serious ledges and then a wide falls. The falls is about 5 feet high and drops into a common pool with the Gage Gulf (Belson Creek.) Both creeks almost parallel each other just before they both drop into the pool with waterfalls separated by a very thin shale wall. Immediatly downstream the creek becomes extremely narrow and surrounded by cliffs on both sides. Once leaving the pool there is no turning back and you are committed to running this Class V box canyon called The Flume of Doom! 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