Calcasieu River: White Oak Park to Lake Charles
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 15.13 nm
- Elevation gain
- 3 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3 ft
- Max elevation
- 6 ft
- TrailRank
- 39
- Min elevation
- 6 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 5 hours 6 minutes
- Time
- 6 hours 44 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4811
- Uploaded
- February 18, 2024
- Recorded
- February 2024
near Goss, Louisiana (United States)
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Itinerary description
She's a big river down this way. It was cold and windy but not too much of either. The river was high, a bit over 11 foot at the Kinder gauge but that worked in our favor and gave us pretty good current, at least initially. As you go downstream you pretty much loose it and we paddled steadily all day just to average 3.5 mph. Beautiful Cypress Forest borders the river pretty much the whole way. Beware of boaters. We did not encounter that many, but they were universally rude.
Waypoints
Waypoint
5 ft
White Oak Park
Put-in. Great secure facility. Normally lots of boaters here, we were early had it to ourselves.
Thermal waters
1 ft
Thermal waters
33 degrees when I left the house. About 40 at put-in. Got warm(er) but we never shed any layers.
Waypoint
2 ft
da-end
Take out under the I-10 Bridge. Watched a fella catch a really big Red Fish right from the parking lot while we were loading.
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Congrats on a successful mission gentleman with grub and beer mid stream.