page_title: Big South Fork of the Cumberland River
section_title: Whitewater
hierarchical_section_title: Big South Fork of the Cumberland River / Whitewater
caption_attribution_description: English: Big South Fork National Park Service Map
context_page_description: The Big South Fork of the Cumberland River is a 76-mile-long river in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky. It is a major drainage feature of the Cumberland Plateau, a major tributary of the Cumberland River system, and the major feature of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
context_section_description: Whitewater rafting and kayaking occur on the Big South Fork mostly in the Spring season. Available runs range in distance from 4.8 miles (7.7 km) to 27 miles (43 km), and vary in difficulty between classes I and IV according to the international scale of river difficulty. The most popular runs are those upstream from Leatherwood Ford, ranging from 8.5 miles (13.7 km) to 15.5 miles (24.9 km) in distance and between class I and IV in difficulty depending on put-in. The minimum water flow recommended by the National Park Service for rafting is 800 cfs, with a maximum flow of 10,000 cfs for safe rafting.
  Moving downstream from the confluence to Lake Cumberland, named rapids according to the National Park Service are:
  Double Falls
  Washing Machine
  The Ell
  Rion’s Eddy
  Jake’s Hold
  O&W Rapid
  Angel Falls
  Big Shoals
  Devil’s Jump
caption: Excerpt from an NPS map, showing the confluence (bottom right), rapids up to Leatherwood Ford, and Angel Falls downstream (northward)[g]
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