It’s been subjugated by agriculture, its streambed artificially channelized (is “lobotomized” too strong a word?). We haven’t paddled this section and frankly, we’d only attempt it if we lost a bet or if someone paid us.
See below for the specifics, but you essentially have your choice of lush public land and flatwater riffles, a few rocks and the prettiest bridge you may have never yet seen or urban escapade in moving water with some rapids. These three sections couldn’t be more different from one another, which makes the Turtle even more notable. Out of Comus Lake it behaves like a creek again but there are some undesirable aspects until School Section Road.įor those reasons we really only recommend the three sections from School Section Road to Dickop Street, about 50 yards upstream of the confluence at Rock River. From its source, the creek is entirely channelized for 8 miles and change to Comus Lake. It flows out of Turtle Lake, south of Whitewater and close to the very attractive Ice Age Trail segments in the Kettle Moraine South (close to, but no cigar). Why it’s called a creek and not a river is anybody’s guess. Even in its upstream sections in Delavan it ranges between 50-100’ wide. It’s not terribly long (only 44 miles, one-third of which we recommend skipping altogether) and it’s often on the shallow side – the Beloit section in particular – but there’s still a variety of environments it passes through, each with its own trip experience.įirst off, even though it’s called a creek, it looks and feels like a river.
Popular with locals but for some reason mostly unknown to outsiders (which is probably just fine by the locals), there’s a lot to love about this pretty stream. Turtle Creek is a real gem in southern Wisconsin.
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