Farmstead Falls

After nearly 1.8 miles of flatwater, some minor boulderbed rapids are encountered. The river takes a right-angle bend (to the right) and a horizon line awaits. This is a sweet sliding drop, into what can be a rather sticky hole (at some flows). Generally best just right down the center, but occasionally boaters may try a line more to the left, to avoid the 'meat' of the hole, and drop a little bit of a 'boof' which can exist off the end of the slide to that side.

The hole can (at times) look really sweet for play, however, the right side of the outflow pool has much rock, generally fairly smooth but also generally fairly shallow, which will hamper access and generally inhibit most interest in risking much play. A LARGE pool (almost a lake!) follows, before the river twists left to continue.

(Note: Rating this rapids is a bit tricky. It is such a simple smooth slide (with no complexity to the approach, and a huge pool below) that it could be called barely class II. However, good boaters have gotten 'worked' by the hole at the base of the slide, which would suggest that it can deserve the class III or higher rating. YMMV.)

Following this, you'll have ~1.2 miles of mostly flatwater to the next significant feature.