Harshman Road put-in and small ledge

Parking is on the west side of Harshman Road and south side of the river, just inside Eastwood MetroPark. Enter the park at the traffic light (not at the lake entrance) and take the first right inside the park and follow the driveway down to a loop with a changing room. River access is by walking down the bike path underneath Harshman Road to the gravel beach just in front of a DANGER sign. If you are more adventurous, you can walk past the DANGER sign through the brush and around the corner to a spot with some good ferry practice and a small one-foot ledge that you can run (Class II). At higher water, there is a roughly four-foot-tall slide above this ledge that can also be run (Class III), but wood is frequently present and so this is very rarely done. Those choosing the more standard put-in will be in a small eddy, and it is not difficult to ferry across the river into a larger eddy on river right. Large groups will want to do this to make room for more to get in. As you start downriver, watch out for a piece of rebar sticking up in the middle of the river underneath the bridge (at 4+ feet this is submerged).