Class II-III Black River, WI

When the full reach is runnable, it can provide some rare big water play in Wisconsin. This may be done as either a park-and-play at the put-in (where the best play waves are) or as the listed three mile run from the dam to the powerplant. The run may be extended to a landing at Hall's Creek to add three more minor drops (though most whitewater boaters forgo the added flatwater this necessitates).

 

The usual run (at moderate to high flows) starts about a quarter-mile below the dam (the first point reached from the carry-in from normal roadside boater parking). Between the dam and this point lie some serious drops which contains near inescapable boiling cauldrons at moderate to high flows (class IV-V+). As long as one puts in below this upper stretch, there no rapids which rise above a class II-III rating. (American Whitewater)