Homemade Whitewater Park

[Big Daddy D]

Proof you don't need a million dollars to create a WW park. Mike Legoffe has been working on some play features near his home. Using a little ingenuity, some wood, rocks, a lot of hard work and some experimentation, he's created a really fun play spot just an hour and half from Dallas.

He shared his creation with us this weekend and we had an awesome time. His handmade park is on the Brazos River. We had just under 500 cfs. He says it's ideal at 900 cfs. There are three features. The first is deep enough to cartwheel and loop. Somewhat similar to the first feature at Dierks. The second and third features are good for surfing and spinning. Not quite the Ocoee, but 13.5 hours closer, so it salvaged our weekend.

Here are some pics from yesterday.

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BDD

[GN YAKN]

Very nice!

[waterhog]

Is that legal not that it matters to me but just wonderin

[Flapjack]

Probably not but who cares. Just have fun until someone snitches and tells the coe. Look like he put a lot of time on the project. good goin.

[Ben Rodda]

Take a look at this variation of the homemade white water park... Its in Albequerque New Mexico. Apparently you can loop in it at 200 CFS....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sundownr01 ... 330192484/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[gannon311]

How far is thus from Graham TX? That river runs through there just wondering if it was close.

[BMuu]

Thanks for sharing D.

Do you plan to come up and run the tot if it comes up soon? It sure would be nice to have you help show me the lines again.

-Kyle

[Big Daddy D]

How far is thus from Graham TX? That river runs through there just wondering if it was close.

It's just outside of Glen Rose. About 2 hours from Graham.

Kyle, if the Tot comes up I'll come up.

[hfunkhouser]

Sure would be cool if the city of Fayetteville put something like that at Pump Station Park..........

[hfunkhouser]

Can I show these links to the City or is that gonna imperil their work?

[Big Daddy D]

Can I show these links to the City or is that gonna imperil their work?

Please don't. Let's just keep this amongst us paddlers. Thanks.

[hfunkhouser]

No problem.

[jvickery]

Thats what I keep saying, throw some boulders, stack some rocks, let er go and lets get wet!