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Rapid GA Class IV

Mill Shoals

Sweetwater Creek - Sweetwater Creek State Park to Chattahoochee River (GA)

Monitor this Rapid

Gauge Conditions

Sweetwater Creek near Austell, GA Upstream Primary

Runnable: 1.6 – 8.2 FT

After the Floods of 2009 a new gauge was installed. Min. 2.4 Max. 9.00 are the old flows. The new levels validated with several frequent local paddlers.

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

From the first ledge to the falls is nearly a mile continious class 3 plus or 4 rapids depending on the water level. Above 5.5 feet its one sweet long rapid. Normally run to the left of the islands, but there are also right and center lines. There is always badly placed and hard to see wood in the drops.