Little River Paddle, GA 122 to Lawson Millpond Road 2016-01-16

Update 2016-01-17: Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman.

An easy downstream paddle on the lazy Little River, convenient to I-75.

Hahira on GA 122 to Little River, to Lawson Mill Pond Road Facebook: event

When: 10AM Saturday January 16, 2016

Where: GA 122 Little River, MILE 24.5, Five miles west of Hahira (I-75 exit 29), 3.4 miles east of Barney, south side of GA 122, east side of river, Lowndes County

Take out: Lawson Mill Pond Road, MILE 20.25, Five miles east of Morven on Lawson Mill Pond Road, Five miles west of Hahira (I-75 exit 29) on Morven Road, south side of Lawson Pond Road, west side of river, Brooks County

Distance: About 4 1/4 miles

Duration: About two and a half hours

Shuttle: Less than four miles each way, so less than 30 minutes

End time: Around 1PM

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Hahira on GA 122 to Little River, to Lawson Mill Pond Road

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Here’s an excellent picture of the put in by South Georgia Kayak Fishing from January 2011. He wrote the water level was just above 4 feet on the USGS GA 122 gage, and he had to drag his kayak over sandbars below upstream from the bridge. So we can guess 4 feet is probably a minimum water level on the GA 122 gage. National Weather Service Flood Stage is 19 feet, so we’ll definitely want the water level to be lower than that.

Backup in case of low or high water:

Where: Banks Lake, 307 Georgia 122, Lakeland, GA 31635, Lanier County

Directions: 18 miles east of Hahira (I-75 exit 29), 2 miles west of Lakeland, south side of GA 122

When: 10AM Saturday January 16, 2016

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Update 22 Nov 2015: And more:

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