River/Stream: Cedar River
Location: southeast of Cedar Rapids, Linn County
Owner: State of Iowa
Height (ft.):
Warning Signs: None
Portage: Pull out on the sandbar on the river left and portage across the rocks and dry section of the dam, putting in at the sandbar below the rapids.
Comments: state park; highly deteriorated
Excerpts from Paddling Iowa by Nate Hoogeveen: RUNNING THE RAPIDS THROUGH THE BREECH IS NOT RECOMMENDED. Although to experienced paddlers they look like runnable, solid class II rapids with some potentially sticky holes, pieces of steel that once reinforced the concrete dam below the surface can pierce a boat's hull and/or entrap a swimming paddler. Numerous people have perished while wading.
