| Region: | River: | NTS Sheet: | UTM Type: | Zone: |
| West Coast | Bottom Brook | 12 H\13 | NAD27 | 21 |
| River Description: |
| A steep rocky brook pouring out of the Long Range Mountains over a series of difficult |
| cascades. |
| Difficulty Rating: | Hardest Rapid: | Flow Information: |
| V+ | VI | The description by Brandon Knapp and the gradient |
| suggest this is a low water run. Late June - Early July |
| and after summer rainfalls as it is fed by a lake. |
| How to get there: | Gradient |
| Put-in | Northing | Easting: | Section: | Avg |
| 5518241 | 452967 | Distance | 0.9 | km |
| The put-in is about a one hour hike\bush crash up to | Gradient | 78 | m/k |
| Bottom Pond from the take-out on St. Paul's Inlet. |
| 411 | fpm |
| Take-out | Northing | Easting: |
| 5519019 | 452236 |
| The take-out is located at the eastern most end of St. |
| Paul's Inlet, where Bottom Brook enters the inlet. Access |
| to the inlet is provided from the town of St. Paul's on |
| Highway #430 (the Viking Trail). It is 11 km to cross the |
| inlet and this is probably best done by hiring a boat. |
| There are fishermen and sightseeing tour outfits (Seal |
| Island Boat Tours) that can probably provide a shuttle |
| Detailed Description of the River |
| First Descent: (2001) Brandon Knapp, Johnnie Kern, Dustin Lindgren, and Stephan Riendeau. |
| On the first descent in 2000 Bottom Brook, which flows into St. Paul's Inlet from Bottom Pond, |
| was incorrectly identified as the St. Paul's River. |
| Excerpt from Kayak Session magazine, #2. "Exploring New Territory in the 'untouched |
| Northeast': a paddler's journey through Newfoundland," pages 36 - 42. By Brandon Knapp. |
| "To Paddle the St. Paul's River, we had to work our way to the interior end of one of these |
| fjords where the river drops into the ocean. |
| Our day on the St. Paul's started out with the owner of Seal Island Boat Tours. We loaded up |
| all our gear and kayaks into his boat and began the hour trip to the head of the fjord and the |
| mouth of the St. Paul's…….As we approached the river, we could see what looked like a huge |
| falls upstream. When the water got too shallow for our ride, we seal launched off the boat and |
| paddled to shore to begin our hike up river. The hike was as grueling as the boat ride was |
| serene. A trail existed but it hadn't been used in years and we wished for machetes as we |