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Please don't laugh....but I'm obsessed (I believe that's the word my family used!) with finding a river that I saw on an HGTV House Hunters show. I recently relocated here from Oregon and love that I don't really have to spend 24 hours a day indoors due to the wet and cold!
Not long after moving here, I happened to watch a House Hunters show about a Raleigh woman looking for a new house - and at the very beginning of the program it flashed quickly through different pictures of the Raleigh area including a picture of the woman and her daughter jogging on a paved trail through the trees and ending up at a swiftly moving river that didn't appear to be muddy/murky and actually showed whitewater.
Can anyone help put me out of my misery and give me some ideas as to where they think this might have been filmed? I have obtained several maps, including a map showing the greenway trails, and have yet to find what I remember seeing on the show. My family all think I've totally "lost it" this time, as I even emailed HGTV to see if they could help me out! I didn't receive a reply, so I'm guessing they might have had better and more urgent things to do (imagine that!!). Any thoughts?
Maybe on the Neuse River below Falls Lake Dam. That's the only place I can think of with rapids and a greenway. The only other rapids I can think of are on the Haw River above Jordon Lake, but they don't have a greenway that I know of.
Maybe on the Neuse River below Falls Lake Dam. That's the only place I can think of with rapids and a greenway. The only other rapids I can think of are on the Haw River above Jordon Lake, but they don't have a greenway that I know of.
Thank you both for the suggestions - I'm on my way!!
You won't find whitewater right now. They're not releasing much water from the dam. They have a schedule, I believe, and have timed releases. They actually plan to put a whitewater rafting park down there in the future but right now you will find a parking lot, a canoe/kayak put-in, and the beginning of what is now a 6.5 mile greenway trail called the Upper Neuse Greenway, which will ultimately go on for many miles around the entire city and multiple counties.
That would be Lassiter Mill right behind Aldert Root school. Crabtree Creek is at it's widest right behind the old damn. There are some very nice houses right on the water. It is a great park. Was a hangout back in the day when the Lassiter family still owned the land. Kids would jump off the old bridge into Crabtree Creek.
I didn't see the episode mentioned, but we walk to the lassiter dam all the time (usually on our way to the greenway). If you visit, go shortly after a large rain storm. You will see rapids.
I grew up down the street. We used to fly down the chute in front of the dam on the left side and get shot into the water below. This was in the 70's to early 80's before any houses were there.
Just wondering....did you try to go to the HGTV website and find that episode in the archives?
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