South (Shenandoah tributary), Virginia, US
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Waynesboro (Rte. 611) to Lynnwood (Rte. 708)
| Usual Difficulty |
I-II (for normal flows) |
| Length |
25 Miles |
Gauge Information
| Name |
Range |
Difficulty |
Updated |
Level |
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SOUTH RIVER NEAR WAYNESBORO, VA
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usgs-01626000 |
2.70 - 9.50 ft
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I-II |
00h21m |
2.9
ft
(rc= 0.0 ) |
Upper limit for best boatability uncertain. Please help your fellow boaters with a comment or report. |
River Description
Ed Evangelidi describes this as:
A scaled down version of the pretty South Fork of the Shenandoah that this river flows into.
Mountain scenery and enough rapids to make it worthwhile. Streamside parks and other adjacent
attractions can add to your enjoyment.
StreamTeam Status: Not Verified
Last Updated: 2009-03-28 16:56:36
No photos found. 
User Comments
lower than recommended, but we just wanted to get out. We tried to find the put-in in Dooms
mentioned in the other comment, we found the pull off, but we couldn't figure out how to get the
boat to the river without dragging it over someone's fence and field (anybody know about landowner
relations here?). We opted to just put in at the park in Crimora and take out at the pull off in
Harriston. Much of the river was nice and deep enough to paddle. We saw numerous Belted Kingfishers
and an Osprey. We weren't fishing, but we saw many large fish. We were the only boat, but there
were several people fishing from the bank (hopefully they weren't planning on eating what they
caught). Some portions we had to get out and push due to low water and others we had to push due to
trees across the river. Would it be a faux paus to float this section with a small camp saw and
remove some branches to make the river more navigable? Several of the ripples/rapids looked like
they'd be a lot of fun with one more foot of water in the river.
parking and you can split up runs from rt 611 in dooms(pullof is 100 yds up from bridge go down NW
side of bridge) to crimora and crimora to harriston(rt 778 bridge park under bridge) i ran the
first section the other day at 2.65 on harriston gauge probably lowest level runnable without
having to get out, ran other section the next day at 2.6 and had to drag about three times. section
one is clean but the other has two? river bend rapids that ran straight into down trees that
required hard paddling crosscurrent to avoid (plus a dead cow just down from the putin). wont run
that one again until above 2.7. can run in 2-3 hrs if paddling but i float fished and took a little
over 4 hrs. each. small mouth,redeye, and ALOT of chubs(they're fun though) even saw an osprey
fishing!(hope he doesn't O.D. on mercury!)