freestone river · trout
Whitetop Laurel Creek
Live conditions for Whitetop Laurel Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
307cfs↘ fallingnot now
Above the wade band · -21.9% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage3.07 ft
Engine callOFF 401 cfs outside wade band 30–150
The water
Whitetop Laurel Creek is a freestone river in Virginia, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, brook. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.
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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Route 58 roadside access near Konnarock (upper stocked reach)walk in
- Whitetop Station (Virginia Creeper Trail trailhead)walk in
- Creek Junction Trailhead / Whitetop Laurel Fishing & Viewing Area (Creek Junction Accessible Fishing Trail)walk in
- Konnarock roadside access (US-58)bridge
- Taylors Valley Trailhead / Villagecarry
- Green Cove Station (Virginia Creeper Trail trailhead)walk in
- Callahan's Crossingbridge
- Iron Bridge (Route 58 crossing)bridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.