Gauge Conditions
Runnable: 8.7 – 12.5 FT
Low runnable to a decent flow. Echo may be approaching the highest it can be run safely.
Data from American Whitewater & USGS
Photo
Photo courtesy of American Whitewater
Description
Echo rapid is a man-made dynamite blasted rapid formed around 1920 creating a canyon through a mountain. You should be able to see an old green tram bridge that connects the canyon together at the top and old boney piles on the right.
Use major caution here as it is manmade.
Approach the rapid starting river right and end river left, please scout there is a hole you need to miss or boof at the enterance. Boof the drop, rock slide, punch the hole. Gets pushy and forms a nasty recirc in big water.
On a low flow, you can walk right through it if you are skilled on your toes, though a portage more than likely is on river left, through the train tracks.
Location
Other Rapids on This Run (12)
Rapid
I
Put In - North Confluence
Hazard
N/A
Low Head Dam
Rapid
II
Loop Section
Playspot
III
Cockscomb
Rapid
II+
Around The Bend
Rapid
II
Bear Run
Rapid
III
Whale Rock
Rapid
II
Left Channel
Rapid
II
Conemaugh Viaduct Rapids (Loop Takeout)
Rapid
N/A
Mineral Point Take Out
Rapid
II
Class II
Rapid
N/A
Clapboard Run Takeout
View Full Run
South Fork to Johnstown
Little Conemaugh
II-III(V)
9.1 mi
Hazard — Exercise extreme caution in this area.
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater
American Whitewater