QUEBEC BROOK & MADAWASKA FLOW paddling, Adirondack Park
Aug 2024 - Santa Clara CE Tract Madawaska Road Update: The Madawaska Road will NOT be opened this year due to repeated storm damage and the need for a broad look at long-term, proactive repairs before reopening to be prepared for any more major weather events in the future. The gate is locked and the road is only passable for lessees. Aug 29 & 30, 2010 - MADAWASKA FLOW, QUEBEC BROOK, ONION RIVER. ~6 mile drive on rough dirt roads - several turns, pay attention to directions in guidebook by Cilley Adirondack Paddler's Guide . Easy 0.42-mile portage to the flow. Paddled to a roomy campsite near the dam. Short carry past dam & old road, rough put-in on Quebec Brook. Soon take a R on Onion River, which stays fairly wide for over a mile then gets narrower - a couple of beaver dams to go over. Eventually, too little water to continue. Jennings Mtn to the N. Back to QB & further downstream to rapids which I ran...