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Waterfall WI

Narrowing

Underwood Creek - *2025.07.11 WOOD ALERT* Krueger Park to Hoyt Park (0.5 - 3.5 miles) (WI)

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Gauge Conditions
Underwood Creek at Wauwatosa, WI Downstream Primary
Runnable: 225.0 – 625.0 CFS

Too low. Boat and paddle abuse (scraping down a cement ditch and rocky rapids).

Data from American Whitewater & USGS
Photo
Narrowing
Photo courtesy of American Whitewater
Description

The first roughly half of this section (from under the freeway to the confluence) had enough room for the creek to be widened to re-create a floodplain and do some meandering of the streambed. Midway down, private properties line river-left, and the railroad flanks the stream to the right, so meandering and floodplain were not an option. As a result, the creek narrows to flow between vertical walls. Flow through here is (at best) swiftwater. At low water, there may be rocks to avoid, but any decent boatable flow everything should be well-covered, making this essentially flatwater.

Location
Type
Waterfall
Difficulty
Class N/A
Mile Marker
2.6 mi
Directions
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*2025.07.11 WOOD ALERT* Krueger Park to Hoyt Park (0.5 - 3.5 miles)
Underwood Creek
II(III) 3.6 mi
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater