Quickly check what the Watauga River is running with the real-time gauges embedded below. The gauge sites are located in Foscoe and Sugar Grove, N.C., and Elizabethton, Tenn.
See links for more info on gauges, how to use them for safely recreating and what each graph means.
Watauga River in Sugar Grove, NC
Click for more info on the above U.S. Geological Survey gauge.
Click for more info about the above graph from the NWS.
Watauga River near Foscoe, NC
This gauge is temporarily offline. See link below.
Click for more info about the above gauge from N.C. Emergency Management.
Watauga River at Elizabethton, TN
Coming soon: More info about the U.S. Geological Survey gauge below Wilbur Dam.