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Griffin Creek
Sequatchie Valley Tennessee
Water Quality (1 bad 3 good) (acid mine run-off)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
The put-in can be hard find there aren't many real road signs.
Look on Page 24 of you Tennessee Gazetteer , the look for hwy 108 outside Whitwell TN. Okay here is the hard part, look for Pocket Road. (It takes you to Pocket Creek) keep going and look for this road on the right coming from Whitwell, Tennessee.
You will turn right here leaving from Whitwell on Hwy 108. This road wasn't on the GPS or the Gazetteer. 
Then go down this road..............it will be pavement and will turn to gravel.
Look for this flat crossing...you can miss it really easy...its the put-in.
River
Description
Class
4
for
the
runnable
ones,
which
ain't
many.
Back
in
the
spring
of
1995(?)
Tom
Bowen,
Tim
Williams,
Clay
Wright
and
Bill
Morwinkle
made
an
attempt
on
Griffin
Creek
.
Griffin
runs
into
the
Sequatchie
valley.
Brian
Collins
and
I
scouted
this
in
1994
and
were
unsure
due
to
weird
gradient,
and
decided
to
move
on
after
walking
20%
of
it. It's
steep,
but
not
extreme,
also
the
rock
is shelfy,
if
that
is a
word.
And
it
was
full
of
deadfalls.
Well
that
following spring
it
was
confirmed
by
Tom
Bowen
and
crew.
The
run
started
out
nice,
but
when
the
gradient
picked
up,
so
did
the
undercuts.
The
portage
factor
is
high.
Brian
and
I
imagined
slides
going
into
walls
and
undercuts,
and
according
to
Tom
Bowen
his
team
confirmed
it.
The
others
that
I
have
talked
to
about
the
run
said
never
again,
and
to
write
if
off.
Also
the
watershed
head
waters
are
very
close
to
Pocket
Creek,
but
the
personalities
of
those
creeks
are
totally
different.
Here is the put-in pipe that is underneath the road..........
You can actually paddle inside this pipe!
Here is the beginning of the run.........
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