| Region: | River: | NTS Sheet: | UTM Type: | Zone: |
| Avalon Penninsula | North Arm River | 1 N\6 | NAD27 | 22 |
| River Description: |
| A creek that can be run from low water to very high water. Difficulty decreases at lower water |
| levels |
| Difficulty Rating: | Hardest Rapid: | Flow Information: |
| -IV | V | Spring floods. |
| How to get there: | Gradient |
| Put-in | Northing | Easting: | Section: | Avg |
| 5248278 | 336350 | Distance | 3.3 | km |
| Travel east out of St. John's on the TCH to the exit for | Gradient | 25 | m/k |
| RD. #90. Turn right (NW) and travel 4.3 km down RD. |
| #90. The put-in is at the second bridge crossing a stream, | 134 | fpm |
| which is North Arm River. | Section: | Max |
| Take-out | Northing | Easting: | Distance | 0.6 | km |
| 5250919 | 337124 | Gradient | 48 | m/k |
| From the Put-in travel a further 2.6 km to a four way | 256 | fpm |
| intersection with RD. #60. Turn left on RD. #60 and |
| continue for 1.8 km to the a major bridge over the river. |
| This is a good point to stop and scout the steepest section |
| of the run and the horrible undercut on the downstream |
| brideg support. Continue down the RD. #60 for 440 m and |
| turn right onto a side road. At this point there should be a |
| bridge over the river where it enters the ocean. |
| Detailed Description of the River |
| First Descent: (19??) Jim Price and ???? |
| April 13, 2003 |
| We put-on a where the old train bridge crosses the river, just above the steepest portion of this |
| river. The river was pretty low on the day we ran it this spring, but provides an excellent |
| opportunity to practice eddy turns and boat scouting. The initial drops wind down through big |
| boulders and narrow slots. For the most part it is wise to follow the most flow. A couple of |
| distinct rapids exist in this section and are mostly run on the river left side. Two of them have |
| nice, narrow slot moves on river right, but both slots are very pinny. |
| When the river takes a sharp turn to the right buckle down and get ready for the fun to start. |
| The horizon drops away at this point and the run into the bridge rapid begins. The first rapid in |
| this section is right down the middle for a nice boof into a river right eddy. The rapid under the |
| bridge (Mr. Hyde - III - V+) changes with water levels. At low water it can be run anywhere, |
| but at higher flows a dangerous hole forms on the downstream side of the river left bridge |