Whitewater Run MI Class IV

roadside along Hwy.45 (up to 1.44 miles)

American Whitewater

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Gauge Conditions

Ontonagon River near Rockland, MI Downstream Primary

Runnable: ? – ? CFS

Approximate reading: This gauge is 3.5 miles away on Sandstone Creek. Use as a general reference only.

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

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Description

Four miles south of Rockland, MI, 10 miles north of Bruce Crossing, along US Hwy 45 just south of the Military Bridge over the Ontanagon. This run is essentially a 'roadside ditch' (for the length of the reach you may be interested in boating). This will have a very short window of opportunity, boatable one day, not the next. If you are only getting here on a weekend, you may have just missed it, a day too early or a day too late. But . . . if you happen to be there on the right day, you're in for a real treat! A scout for wood is mandatory. Action builds to the last 0.2 mile where the creek drops 60' (giving an 'effective gradient' near 300 FPM for that stretch), tripping down a sequence of slides and ledges in the sandstone bedrock. Description and photos (with no flow, and minimal flow) may be found at: Waterfalls of the Keweenaw.