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Playspot WI Class II+

Typewriter ("TW")

Milwaukee - C) Estabrook Park to N.Riverboat Road (PnP or up to 3.6 miles) (WI)

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Gauge Conditions
Milwaukee River at Milwaukee, WI Upstream Primary
Runnable: 120.0 – 9,999.0 CFS

Intermediate flow. Perhaps ideal flows for beginner-to-intermediate boaters (full run or PnP at EPL, UPk, TD or North Ave). (See description for details.)

Data from American Whitewater & USGS
Photo
Typewriter ("TW")
Photo courtesy of American Whitewater
Description

Time of year matters! Waves are 'broken' in summer (not forming at flows they'd be great late-fall and most of spring)! Descriptions of features (and water levels they're 'in') are for non-summer situation!

From 600 to 1600 cfs, whitewater playboaters should get surfs, flatspins, and slightly elevated spins. (There's never enough retentiveness or depth for full-vertical or aerial maneuvers.) A shoreline 'escalator eddy' river-right allows easy repeat play.

High water in 2008 changed this feature. Previously a diagonal wave (looking like it would 'typewriter' you to river-left) no longer exists. Now (when it is 'in'), it is a narrower wave or breaking wave/hole, center-river.

The names of this feature and those which follow pay homage to Christopher Latham Sholes who is credited with (improvements on efforts of others and a number of patents which led to) the first commercially viable typewriter.

Location
Type
Playspot
Difficulty
Class II+
Mile Marker
3.3 mi
Directions
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C) Estabrook Park to N.Riverboat Road (PnP or up to 3.6 miles)
Milwaukee
I-II(III) 3.5 mi
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater