Thiensville Village Park

From Highland Road to the launch/landing ramp in Thiensville Village Park is another 3.47 miles of (essentially) lake paddling.

The entire area within 200' of dam is posted as off-limits for boating, swimming or wading. The police/fire station is right at the entrance to the park (within sight of the parking area by the dam), and enforcement is reportedly fairly strict. (Well, other than ... the launch/landing ramp lies within the 200' exclusion area!)

The dam has a fun-looking slide far to river-left, and (at some levels) looks like it could provide some (illegal) entertainment or play.

The center and right part of the dam drop vertically onto shallow rock (at low-to-moderate flow) or into a nasty keeper hydraulic (at moderately high flow).

At super high flows, you'ld never even know the dam was here as water backs up and totally engulfs the dam!

As of November, 2010, a fish ladder exists on river-right. However, an overhead stop-gate limits flow and precludes paddling into the channel. Additionally, a fence and signage indicate that the fish ladder is not open to public access and is NOT part of the park (although it is owned by the village of Thiensville, just as the park is). Just as well, since the fish ladder was constructed so as to lose the elevation of the dam in such a way as to not really create any whitewater features at any allowed flow rates.