Daniel Creek Lookout Mountain Georgia Cloudland Canyon               Water Quality (1 bad 3 good) Scenery (1 bad 3 good)            Maps:   Watershed Map (to find location and size of creek) Click Here Special thanks to Steve Zerfos for making the map.   Topo Map: Click Here A special thanks to Randy Hale of NorthRiverGeographic for the map     Class V.2   5  Miles Average Gradient 100 feet per mile Max Gradient 190 feet per mile...but trust me this number lies, it feels steeper.   Location: Page 21 of Alabama Gazetteer. That right :) your Alabama Gazetteer, you don't need the $12 dollars for a Georgia Gazetteer.     River Description                                                                Photo courtesy of Jack Anthony Photography Please click on the picture to go to their site     Daniel Creek Level :14"-19" of water at the Bear Creek Put-in bridge. 14" is painful 18"-19" " it's getting there for the 50 footer to run. Class V Internet Gage: Please check our flowpage for levels and readings. Put-in: You put in at the park, and you must tell the rangers, because you are going camping right...you're going camping right? the put-in is very cool. HOT SHOWERS! at the campground. Even the campground is worth checking out. But you are going camping because boating in the park is bad. Camping is fun...Boating in the park is bad. Daniel Creek...Its fun or hard...choose your fun or poison. But the hard isn't that hard. I actually call it Little Tallulah.   Here is a picture of the creek before the big waterfall.................               It's not the rapids, it's the stairs, and boy there is a bunch. There are also some nice drops. One will go , although there are reports of it being unrunnable. It's been run. It's a little over 50 foot tall, and lands in shallow water. BUT I saw it a day after a 3+ inch big rain event. It's a Pat Keller suck it up and go type drop. Once filled up, the drop is clean and good to go, You will clear the rock at the bottom. I just didn't have the back or gonads. It gets fluffy and washes out.   Here is a distance shot of the big one.....................                Or you can come up from the bottom, from Bear Creek on river left, shortly after Armageddon. This section is fun, it's tight precision type boating and should be run by more Bear Creek boaters. The run is technical, with mank, boofs ,drops and eddy hopping. Short boats will have fun here, leave your long Green Boat at the house. Trees can be bad in here, but not the bad OMG...why am I doing this bad. Most are avoidable, and can even add to the experience, I did my first rail grind here and you can too...just be careful. I think the coolest part of Daniel, is when the cool guys are running Bear you up there doing your thing, and drop into Bear, and you get the WTH did you come from look. Anyway I like Daniel Creek...check it out :)   This shows you how deep the gorge is...................                      This picture was scanned in and is below the big one..........