This river is part of the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway and is one of the original eight rivers to be protected under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 and has consequently been preserved in a wonderfully wild state. This section is very enjoyable and beautiful as it passes through scenery that changes from woods and grass to sand and clay banks as well as passing one of the biggest logging dams ever built. Eight regularly spaces piles of rock in the river once served to impede and break up massive ice floes so that they wouldn’t crush the dam. Downstream, four piles of rock mark the site of the old Nevers Dam, a huge structure built in 1890 to help regulate the flow of logs and to prevent logjams.