Water Quality (1 bad 3 good)
Scenery (1 bad 3 good) 
Map:
Watershed Map (to find location and size of creek) Click Here
Special thanks to Steve Zerefos for making the map.
Obed River:
Bridge Creek
Length:2 miles
Gradient:
Min:120 fpm
Max 260 fpm
Class V
Shuttle Service:
Camping:
This isn't free but it is
VERY paddler friendly
Here is Erik's hostel and is
his contact info is on Facebook.
Here is his link
Click Here for Erik's hostel and
camping
Maps:
Thanks to Randy Hale of www.northrivergeographic.com
http://www.northrivergeographic.com/wrww/BridgeCreekA1.pdf
http://www.northrivergeographic.com/wrww/BridgeCreekB1.pdf
http://www.northrivergeographic.com/wrww/BridgeCreekA2.pdf
http://www.northrivergeographic.com/wrww/BridgeCreekB2.pdf
http://www.northrivergeographic.com/wrww/BridgeCreekIndex.pdf
Overview:
Bridge Creek:
A completion could be had here; it’s a steep trashy Class V waiting to be had. It’s also a big rain event run. Look for at least 2.5 inches of rain with a saturated watertable to make this run happen.
From Rob Kelly 8-6-2011 5:29 PM
Bridge Creek... Let's see.... Andy Bridge and I worked at Dagger, in Harriman at the time. One day we went to Rock Island in our "play" boats (Cascade and Transition), when a storm hit. We decided to chase the water and looked at the topo map. Then we headed up toward Calfkiller. Looking at the terrain and storm we decided to try Bridge Cr. We set a car (mine) at the a useable take out, and drove up the watershed to find a put in. We ended up launching in a private neighborhood (something like Cumberland Cove?) on a feeder creek. As we launched, we saw a security vehicle pull up. At this point we were already in the water, and just peeled out. The rain had stopped, the put in was narrow and rhodo filled, but seemed wet enough. The take-out had seemed wet enough. We thought it was all good!
The creek was fun. Kind of tumbley and progressed into more ledge-ish drops. Distinctly at a big pool at the bottom of a series of drops, we lost the water. It went plateau style limestone underground. At this point we started to hike. The drops remained good, but dry. Good bouldery drops, just no water. (they must run some, because the vegetation was limited). The terrain started to flatten eventually. We even found a trail on river right that stayed in the valley, but not creekside all the time. This eventually turned into a logging road. We were running out of daylight and energy.
At this point thought we may have poorly estimated the length of the run, or may have launched into a different valley. We ditched the boats and decided to get to cars/civilization before dark. Another mile or so later, we noticed the creek resurfacing. Then, just around the bend maybe an eighth mile... my car. When we got back to the put in there was hell to pay. The Cumberland Co. Sherriff had been called and he brought in search and rescue to "save" us. End result... Andy's wife was told he was probably dead, he had pulled his gun on us, and we were permanently banned from Cumberland County! Of course we returned two days later to get our boats stashed in the woods.
Fun to explore, not worth seeing again!
Have a good one,
Rob
