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Rapid WI

Lions Park Pedestrian Bridge

Black Earth Creek - CTH.KP at Olson Road to Hudson Road (4.75 miles) (WI)

Gauge Conditions
Runnable: 70.0 – 1,000.0 CFS

Too low to call anything whitewater. (May be paddled, but expect to scrape on all shoals.)

Photo
Lions Park Pedestrian Bridge
Photo courtesy of American Whitewater
Description

It would certainly be possible (as some folks do) to use Lions Park as your take-out (cutting out about a mile of paddling which is mostly uninteresting from a whitewater perspective). However, the take-out area is much less convenient, and you will have a longer carry (though not all that long) to your vehicle, than if you use our listed take-out.

We would also note that (on all maps we can find) river-left is "Lions Park" (with swimming pool, ball diamonds, etc), while river-right is "Walking Iron County Park". A handful of other write-ups (from various paddling blogs and websites) mention taking out at Walking Iron County Park. This seems unfortunately misleading, as the parking for that park is far away from the creek. Anyone plugging that park name into a mapping app will be routed far away from where they really want to be!

Location
Type
Rapid
Difficulty
Class N/A
Mile Marker
3.7 mi
Directions
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CTH.KP at Olson Road to Hudson Road (4.75 miles)
Black Earth Creek
I-II 4.5 mi
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater