I am really surprised at the interest in Cherry Creek. I run parts of it out in the hinterlands of east Denver,Glendale, and SAUDI AURORA.Between the dam and Cherry Creek mallthere are 3 "falls'and around 10 or 12 class 2ish drops.The best is THE RAPID FORMERLY KNOWN AS REBAR,1st d'ed by yours truly.It is about an 8 to 10 foot drop a crescent shaped staircase with 5 apx. 2 ft. steps and an odd recangular slab in the bottom center.It is a very bumpy and aereated affair best run in a ducky unless it is high, I ran it once in my Blunt it was something akin to being smacked in the ass with a baseball bat 3 or 4 times then a piton into the slab, at 175 cfs.At 230 it was a blast to huck over and over in a duck. This drop used to be real ugly, perhaps the most dangerous of all drops on the metro creeks,it included an additional 2 or 3feet of drop now found 100 yds. downstream ,LIL SISTER, was a staircase of brken dowm concrete bridge pilings on a bend,possibly class 4 without the abundant rebar ,wood ,and a sieve! FKA REBAR is located apx. Dayton and Yale.Two larger drops are downstream at Illiff and Bulln'bush these are both extremely poorly designed man made cheesegrater type drops that need alot of water to run.Last year when C CRK WAS 2050 CFS at confluence it was probably 600- 800 out east but by the time i got ther with boat it dropped to 200 or 300 i park n'hucked the 2 cheesegraters only classs 3 skills required, pick aline slide down avoid the obvious rooostertails just don't flip unless you like broken elbows.A couple of play spots form at high flows in Glendale,Cherry st.and just above Colo.blvd.Low bridges near cherry crk. mall.
rambled on too much already to go into detail about town run of SO. PLATTE, NUTSHELL VERSION;PUT INS /TAKEOUTS C-470,MINERAL, nieghborhood near Lee Gulch drops,mex.resteraunt/bowles,union ,oxford, Pink Floyd park n' play(find it yo own sef'),Ruby Hill, frog hollow, confluence, in that order.Drops at c470, mineral,liegh Gulch(good beginner area some drops ,cleaner water than union or conf. deep pools to roll in),Union!, Quincy!,Oxford,Pink Floyd,Ruby hill, paper tiger(stop in and see stretch mark sally and her mother table dance),Mississsippi,DEAD DOG/3RD AVE., and of course confluence to baseball stadium.I'll shut up now bye