01. Woods Canyon Lake to Little Colorado River

Information on boating Chevelon Creek is spotty at best. The run is in a remote canyon with quite steep and very remote. This creek can be broken down into two sections if boaters takeout or putin at FR504 near Chevelon Lake. That shorter run is about 15 miles. This run was done in Holoform Kayakys back in 'the day'. We did this run as an overnight yet could be done in a day. There are multiple dirt roads off the main paved road that can be possible put in locations. We chose to put in at a series of cliffs that required roping out boats down. This was above a grad IV series of rapids. We had 440cfs on the gauge and this would definitely be my minimum. Twice this flow would be awesome. Overnight locations for camping in the canyon are very limited due to the slot canyon nature of the run. We did find a nice sandy beach area in the middle of the run in a flatwater section above the biggest rapid. If you paddle down to an obviously larger rapid that what you've encountered, you can back track up the pool and stay river left. This is a brilliant run with vertical sandstone walls, slot canyon sections, fun and challenging grade III/IV rapids, amazing petroglyphs, and you float through a bolted climbing section that is one of the best I've seen in AZ. Set your shuttle at the bridge easily identifiable on google earth and then pick a spot to put in.