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Bottom Creek drops to the South Fork of the Roanoke River through a steep gorge with very difficult rapids. The American Whitewater website rates it as class 5+ difficulty.

American Whitewater describes the creek, including a great video clip that shows difficulty of the creek.

(Link to a thumbnail of the movie.)
The Nature Conservancy owns much of the land surrounding the creek and have numerous hiking trails in the area.

My pictures follow below:

The gorge viewed from the top. During wetter weather the rocks cliff on the other side of the gorge is a waterfall.

I think this is one of the easier sections of the creek in the gorge.

This is the creek along the road a short distance from the put-in.

Another view of the creek along the road near the put-in.

All pictures linked from the thumbnails above are Copyright 2001 by Bill Hamill. Duplication for personal use is permitted.

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