Flambeau River

It is notable among canoeists in the Midwest for outstanding canoe camping, including excellent scenery, fishing and whitewater.

[2] The river and its forks have a variety of possible trip lengths from short day outings, to overnight camping, to voyages of a week or more.

A common interpretation is that early explorers saw the local Ojibwe (Chippewa) people fishing at night by torchlight.

Generally the river flows through remote areas dominated by second-growth forest, with few road crossings or approaches.

The North Fork in this section is rated class I to II on the international scale of river difficulty at normal water conditions.

The South Fork is a more difficult whitewater river, with runnable rapids up to class III and a portage at Little Falls.

[7] Aldo Leopold in Sand County Almanac discusses Flambeau, the changes to it for canoeing, and the controversy around damming it in the 1940s.