Winter Run starts in the beautiful Piedmont hills west of Bel Air and rushes down a narrow, wooded valley to the tidal Bush River. The put-in at Pleasantville road has steep bank, then the stream winds through a shallow, wooded gorge filled with many beautiful beech trees. There are continuous easy riffles of gravel bars and rock gardens and just above Carrs Mill Road there is a steep, twisting rapid through the ruins of an old milldam. Whitewater is almost nonstop until you reach Atkisson Reservoir. After paddling across the lake, portage around the dam and continue over easy whitewater to the end.