Woodcock Creek
Sequatchie Valley
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
Free Camping:
There is
paddling friendly camping at the Big
Brush Put-in
in the winter.
Click here and
follow our homemade map to the put -in
Camp at
the Put-in.
Rain Gauges:
These rain gauges are nearby to help you figure
out how much rain has fallen.
Dunlap Rain
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Whitwell Rain
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Photo of Jonathan "Lothar
" Clardy by Andy Mitchell
How to get there without a GPS...BUT
FIRST THIS WARNING!
The land is all
private land, you will be trespassing
without written permission , please do
not screw this up for the rest of us.
Please read this first CLICK
HERE
How to find the Mystery Put-in:
Look on page 24 of your Tennessee Gazetteer,
Find Hwy 28 on your map, that 's the take-out,
now to find the put-in. You drive up Daus
Mountain road, See where Grundy County and
Sequatchie County meet on Daus road, there is a
logging road on the map heading right for the
creek, that's it...follow it down...and be
mindful of the land owners .
From Ted Hayes:
He described it as a manky run , with little
to write home rapids that was full of trees and
with terrible portages. All of the action is @
the bottom minus 3 rapids. The only way I would
go back is to just hike up from the bottom & run
that section.
Paddling the whole thing is a lot of work for
what you get, although there are some really
good rapids. Just not that many.
Ted
River Description
To me this is the best run of the Sequatchie
Valley runs, it has it all sieves, slots and
epic rapids. The put-in is not even a gimme.
This paddle is best to tackle in the last spring
, there is so much that comes at you, that you
need all available daylight.This run is on
par with Henderson
Creek (Firescape)
over on Walden's Ridge , if you feel comfortable
there , you will be here. Another reason this is
the better of the runs on the Sequatchie side,
is that it holds it's water better. Most
Sequatchie Valley runs go under water due to all
the caves. Woodcock is usually running on a high North
Chick day.
The names of rapids are cool too.
Whopper Down the Hatch
T-12
Flood Gate.
It's got it all...T-12 has broken a back
(Stuart's) also noted in the middle section the
creek changes flavors and weird eddies appear
that surge up and down and give a boater an
unpleasant ride at higher waters if not
prepared, and not the weird big water type, this
one has it's own flavor.
The sieves here are like Miller
Creek in
Alabama, they add insult to injury. You're in a
sieve , but with bonus points. The bonus points
are caved out sieves , that might wind you up in
the Land
of the Lost.
This run is continuous, demanding and you
need a strong group, more have paddled this
walking away vowing never to come back, for the
hardcore group, they can't wait to enjoy this
tough run again.
Very Special thanks to Andy
Mitchell for
the Intel, pictures and all the knowledge he
provided to help make this Woodcock article
possible.
Photo of Jonathan "Lothar " Clardy by Andy
Mitchell
"Whopper down the hatch"
Photo of Scott Carter Photo by Andy Mitchell
