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Put-in CA

Put In

American Whitewater 39.3882, -121.1432

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Gauge Conditions

Yuba River below Englebright DAM near Smartsville CA Downstream Primary

Runnable: ? – ? CFS

Approximate - nearest available gauge. Use as general reference only.

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

CDEC Flow Data California

N YUBA R BLW GOODYEARS BAR GYB Primary

Elevation: 2,453 ft

Data from California Data Exchange Center (CDEC)

Description

The public is not allowed to walk down the easy road to the base of the dam, and there are no other developed access routes. On the north side of the river the dam access road starts about .9 miles downstream and so blocks access to the river for this distance if one stays off it. Just past this road some boaters have bushwacked about a thousand feet down a hillside from the public road.

On the south side of the river there appears to be a network of logging roads, some of which get close to the river. Their condition and whether they are open to public vehicles is unclear.

The hillside near the spillway looks potentially open and promising for a descent. Rappels might be needed or helpful.