Salmon, South Fork - 3. Matthews Creek to Methodist Creek (CA)
Medium flow range: low below this, high above. Runnable limits are much wider than medium flow range.
Take out here if you don't want to run the tight class IV gorge immediately downstream. This is an unmarked access point and it is not obvious from Cecilville Road or the river. There is a short dirt road off Cecilville Road here and a small area for parking. This is between the 6-mile and 7-mile marker on Cecilville Road and 0.7 miles upstream of the Methodist Creek River Access and bridge over the river. The last rapid before this take-out has a group of laerge boulders in the center of the river that you must navigate and it stands out as more technical than the previous rapids. Look closely from the pool below the boulders and you'll see a makeshift wood staircase on river right that goes from the above high water mark to the parking area further uphill. This is near Graham Gulch.