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Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:00 pm
by 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

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:02 am
by GN YAKN
Very nice! :beer:

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:45 am
by waterhog
Is that legal not that it matters to me but just wonderin

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:16 am
by 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.

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:32 pm
by 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;

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:08 pm
by gannon311
How far is thus from Graham TX? That river runs through there just wondering if it was close.

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:03 am
by 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

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:11 am
by Big Daddy D
gannon311 wrote: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.

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:59 am
by hfunkhouser
Sure would be cool if the city of Fayetteville put something like that at Pump Station Park..........
:poke: :poke: :poke:

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:02 am
by hfunkhouser
Can I show these links to the City or is that gonna imperil their work?

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:12 am
by Big Daddy D
hfunkhouser wrote: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. 8) Thanks.

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:55 pm
by hfunkhouser
No problem.

Re: Homemade Whitewater Park

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:48 am
by jvickery
Thats what I keep saying, throw some boulders, stack some rocks, let er go and lets get wet!