43rd Street Jump (Roller/Dam): 2.5 sq.mi.
Kinnickinnic (Milwaukee trib) - S.20th Street to S.5th Court (1.8 miles) *Access&Quality Issues* (WI)
Gauge Conditions
Runnable: 200.0 – 1,200.0 CFS
Too low for any reasonable whitewater.
Data from American Whitewater & USGS
Photo
Photo courtesy of American Whitewater
Description
Immediately under the downstream edge of 43rd Street lies a rounded cement slab ('hydraulic jump'). With high flows this is likely to form a very uniform hydraulic. However, with only 2.5 square miles drainage, it will seldom get high flows, and they won't last very long.
Upstream of this point, the heavily wooded area is extremely prone to deadfall and snags, so putting in above this location is extremely unlikely by anyone who has bothered to read this description or to look at the actual river!
Location
Other Rapids on This Run (19)
Rapid
N/A
NOTICE!
Hazard
N/A
Exit from LONG underground
Waterfall
N/A
Entrance to ~295' box culvert
Rapid
N/A
Exit from ~295' box culvert
Rapid
N/A
Parking
Waterfall
III
Corrugated Iron Wall Jump (~5.5')
Hazard
N/A
Quad-culvert -- ~1/8th Mile!
Rapid
N/A
Exit Quad-culvert
Rapid
N/A
Side-stream cascade (park pond outflow)
Rapid
N/A
Uppermost (reasonable, but not recommneded!) Put-in
Rapid
N/A
Confluence: Wilson Creek (Combined drainage becomes 17.4 sq.mi.)
Rapid
N/A
2920 S.20th St
Waterfall
III
16th Street Jump (~3')
Rapid
N/A
Pulaski Park "Remediation"
Rapid
N/A
16th Street Cement Ditch
Waterfall
II
11th Street Jump (6-8" stop blocks)
Hazard
IV
8th Street Jump (Offset slide/ledge)
Rapid
N/A
6th Street
Rapid
N/A
Takeout
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S.20th Street to S.5th Court (1.8 miles) *Access&Quality Issues*
Kinnickinnic (Milwaukee trib)
II+(IV)
1.7 mi
Hazard — Exercise extreme caution in this area.
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater
American Whitewater