Estimated Length: 7.6
Date: June 23, 2013
Weather: Sunny and in the 80’s
Time on River: 5 hours
River Conditions: Class I
Distance from Nashville: 45 minutes
Close By: Chapel Hill, Henry Horton State Park and Cedar Rock Lodge
Put-In: Warner Bridge
Take-Out: Halls Mill
Highlights:
This is our second time to paddle this section of the Duck river and I am so glad we did it again. The river was running at a decent pace and the water level was perfect. We did not drag once!!!
Our friends from Murfreesboro joined us so the shuttling of cars and canoes was smooth. It is less than a 10 minutes drive from Warner Bridge to Hall’s Mill. Both the take and put-in are an easy access. You can drive almost down to the waters edge.
What makes the paddle an exceptional trip is the waterfalls, located where Fall Creek joins the Duck River. When we first did this paddle in Oct of 2012 the creek was not flowing as forceful as it was today. What is great is that you can walk right up to the falls, sit down and, let the water cascade over you.
The rest of the paddle was typical Duck, with high bluffs, gravel bars and tree lined river banks. What is amazing to me is that on this beautiful Sunday in June we did not see one other person on the river. We did run into some boaters when we ended our paddle at Halls Mill but otherwise we had the river to ourselves. 
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