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RIVER: Cedar Creek, Hamilton section
        LOCATION: Cedarburg, WI.
AMENITIES: Click for Cedarburg Area Amenities (food, lodging, etc.)

PUT-IN: CTH.T
TAKE-OUT: CTH.C, after joining with Milwaukee River
ALT.TAKE-OUT: Hamilton, at Green Bay Road (for a 1.0 mile trip)

           SHUTTLE: CTH.C west 1.5 mi to Green Bay Road, right (North) 0.2 mi to Hamilton, taking the right fork across the creek, north 1 mi. to CTH.T, then left (west) 0.5 mi. to the creek.

                   DIST: 3.5 mi.
TIME: 1-3 hours

CLASS: 0 (I-II)
    CHARACTER: Flat flowing water punctuated by shallow rocky rapids.
    GRADIENT: 13 fpm

GAUGE: U.S.G.S. gauge: min=50, opt=350, high=1200
            SEASON: Generally runnable.

This section is being included not so much for its own merit (which is minimal), but rather for an extension of the first section, which is short for those not inclined to play every little thing to its boredom.

 For those continuing down river (down creek?) from the previous section, you will loop right and left past some pretty houses and decks, then past the water works (a.k.a. sewage treatment plant), and through some shallow rapids where a dam was removed just before the town of Hamilton. A short, shallow rapids leads a few hundred feet to the Green Bay Road bridge for the first alternative take out.

 Otherwise you will loop around to the left then right over rocky shoals to where the creek splits into numerous channels, the leftmost being the most passable on most occasions.  Downstream you will see some large new homes on the left before entering some pasture lands. Be on the lookout for barbed-wire fences, which straddle the creek in two places. These usually wash out in high water (flood), only to be replaced immediately by the farmer who owns the property on each side of the creek. This brings you to the confluence with the Milwaukee River, which you can paddle down 1/4 mile to CTH.C.


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