Connecticut Water Trails Association
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Connecticut Water Trails Program Connecticut Whitewater Litchfield County
The information here is based upon the best available information presently available. If you find and error or have a written description of a water trail we have not included - please contact us Location: USGS Quadrangle:
Quick Stats American Whitewater Classification: Class I-II Length:
4 miles USGS Real Time Water Data / Gauge: Drainage: Average Gradient:
Recommended Flow:
Rescue Index Months Runnable:
Put-In: Dings
Road, New Hartford Longitude:
73.014366 ºW
Latitude:
41.83672 Take Out:
Nepaug Reservoir
Longitude:
72.94310400000001
ºW
Latitude:
41.820937
Description: To reach the put in take
Carpenter Road to
Dings Road off of
US 202 in New Hartford. The river crosses Carpenter
Road and US 202 several times. The river wanders along and crosses US 202 at an
easy rapid – at .25 mile. Below the crossing is another Class II
section, ending just before the US202 bridge. The rest of the river is
Class I. Sections Of The White Water Run: Scouting: Portages:
Cautions: The river rises in New Hartford and flows east
through
Tunxis State Forest into the Nepaug Reservoir.
Above Connecticut Route 219 the water is shallow, steep and full of blow
downs. The river is runnable from Dings Road to the last
US202 bridge above the Nepaug Reservoir.
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This site utilizes Google base maps to create a faster, more accessible,
and much more user friendly mapping application that provides detailed
information on launch and landing sites, camp sites, restaurants, lodging,
and sites of interest along the various
water trails.
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