freestone river · trout
Barbours Creek
Live conditions for Barbours Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
No live reading right now — the gauge (USGS 02017500) hasn't answered in the last few minutes.
The water
Barbours Creek is a freestone river in Virginia, fished for trout — 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.
troutbrook trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Pines Campground (Barbours Creek headwaters access)walk in
- Potts Creek Road (FDR 5036) / VA 617 Trailhead Parkingwalk in
- Potts Creek Road / VA 617 Trailhead Parking (Barbours Creek Wilderness Addition)walk in
- Pines Campground (Barbours Creek/Lipes Branch)walk in
- Pines Campground / Lipes Branch Trailheadwalk in
- Lipes Branch Trailhead (Barbours Creek confluence)walk in
- Lipes Branch Trailhead (Barbours Creek)walk in
- The Pines Campground Bank Access (Barbours Creek)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.