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Basin Creek
Walden's Ridge
3 Miles
Avg Gradient 180 fpm
Max Gradient 360 fpm
River Quality (1 bad 3 good)
Scenery (1 bad 3 good) 
45 footer Basin Creek Falls Photo Courtesy of John Dunigan
Shuttle Service:For Shuttles contact the following # 423.365. six nine zero zero.
For # 5 dollars a head or $25 a car load. You can get a shuttle. Your car
will be driven to the take-out. 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
River Description
Basin Creek is a lesson in Geology and Geography.
First is trying to find it, the best thing to do is to use Hwy US 70 Outside
of Crossville Tennessee. This makes for a longer day but, it will help you
out in two ways.
First it will tell you if you have enough water...Second of all you will
find the creek instead of trying to bushwhack thru thick laurel .Use the
highway for a put-in.
Basin cuts thru many different layers of rock. Keep looking up you will get
to enjoy some interesting rock as it tries to cut down to the valley floor.
Basin starts off with a hell-uv of a bang, which the first descent party
consisting of Andy Bridge, Mike "Louie" Lewis and Tom Windham found out on.
It starts off with slides that are pretty non-stop, start into the big 30
footer slide. Don't run it blind like the first party did.
From there, its a beat-n-bang run from then on. Manky for sure , but also
trashy due nature of the bedrock you are cutting thru. Then onto the valley
and paddle out which consists of Class III boogie water.
This run for the most part isn't recommended, its just not got the quantity
or the quality.
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