Big Piney Creek - Fort Douglas (AR 123) to Helton's Farm low flow

[needsham]

Hello everybody,

I was thinking about running Big Piney Creek from the AR 123 bridge down to Helton's Farm next weekend. My book says it's not runnable under 2.5 feet. But I know sometimes these things are estimaged on the high side, so I was just wondering it's runnable at it's current level of 1.5-1.7 feet? We'd be in a 17 ft aluminum Grumman flatback canoe and 2 river kayaks (not whitewater kayaks). Any info about this section would be super helpful. Thanks!

[Roger]

Don't do it. Need higher flow the higher up you get. Unless you want to do a lot of dragging.