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BoardCamp Creek
Walden's Ridge Tennessee
Hwy 111 to Back Valley Road (Soddy Tennessee)
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
Board Camp Creek
“The Short Cut to Soddy”
Class IV.2
Photos courtesy of Andre and Jan LaPlume
Level Check: Use the Soddy gauge, if Soddy is running than Board Camp is running
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
MAP:
A Special thanks to Randy Hale of North River Geographic for donating
his resources, effort and time to make this map. To blow it up and for finer
detail please click on the picture. You will need a PDF reader to enlarge
the map.*big file warning :)
Board Camp Creek “back in the day” use to be a remote paddle and for the hardy paddler who didn’t mind an epic day of paddling, hiking, and map reading from Jones Gap Road. Once Highway 111 cut it’s swath through the area it opened up access to the creek and cut a lot of the upper paddling out. This now the short cut put-in for paddling Soddy, other opinions may vary. (Just tackle Soddy and get it over with)
By paddling Board Camp you get more action when heading towards Soddy, Board Camp Creek has several Class III rapids and a couple of Class IV’s that stand out on their own, and at higher (good water) some Class V's come into play .
One note although Board Camp cuts time off a long day if you paddle Soddy all the way from the top, and Board Camp also helps on access issues, because Soddy has access issues due to landowners, rock harvesting and development encroachment .You need to beware of trees. The Southern Pine Beetle was the first to nail the run. Second has been the 4 year drought that stressed the remaining trees, and third for the wind storm that got more. Board Camp is not a choke fest, but if you are thinking it’s a straight shot off the mountain, think again…beware of your surroundings while in this deep gorge.
As of 2005 , a great flood came through and scoured the river bed a more or less took out all the good rapids and left trashy manky rapids. Still its a short cut to Soddy Creek if that's what you are looking for. But overall just tackle Soddy and get it over with.
The only true trash is some old abandoned cars and we found two old stills from days past. Some history in there for sure.
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