Alternate Take-out
Sauk Creek - * UPDATE 2025.09.05 Sketchy wood, but doable * Conservancy to S.Wisconsin St. (1.18 mile or 0.3 mile PnH) (WI)
Gauge Conditions
Almost certainly too low (but you could check its stick-gauge for possible low-water minimums). (Stick-gauge under 13.9' is a total scrape.)
Description
To do laps on the steepest gradient (either when doing the full run with shuttle, or to avoid driving/biking a shuttle), the first reasonable exit after running Upper and Lower Krueger Falls would be at Pierre Road bridge. However, there are only minor eddies under that bridge (at moderate-to-high flows) and it is an extremely awkward climb on steep, wooded banks to get up to the sidewalk.
For easier exit, pass that bridge, and watch river-left for a spot to beach on a rocky shore. You will 'mantle up' a 3-4' vertical cement wall, walk upriver (to the north), to a gate in a chain-link fence surrounding the school football/baseball fields. It may be open, but more likely you may have to drop back down-and-up the wall again to get around it. (It may be possible to take out from the creek before going past that fence/gate, but there is little-to-no obvious marker, and the eddies are not generally as good.) It'll be about 0.3mi to the parking area at the conservancy, or a total of about 0.5mi (or more) if you want to put in for another lap.
Location
Other Rapids on This Run (18)
Waterfall
III
Playspot
III
Playspot
II+
Hazard
N/A
Hazard
N/A
Hazard
N/A
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
American Whitewater