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Idaho Whitewater

Raft Kayak Canoe


Idaho Whitewater

Raft | Kayak | Canoe


Idaho is a paradise for whitewater and kayaking enthusiasts, with its stunning rivers offering a range of experiences for all skill levels. One popular destination is the Payette River, known for its thrilling Class III and IV rapids. The South Fork of the Payette River, with its famous Staircase rapid, is a must-do for experienced paddlers looking for an adrenaline rush. For those seeking a more laid-back adventure, the Main Payette River offers beautiful scenery and fun Class II and III rapids suitable for beginners. Recommended streamflow levels for the Payette River range from 3,000 to 5,000 cubic feet per second for an optimal paddling experience.

Another top spot for whitewater enthusiasts is the Salmon River, also known as the "River of No Return." This iconic river offers a variety of sections for different skill levels, with the Middle Fork of the Salmon River being a favorite among paddlers for its remote wilderness and challenging Class IV rapids. The Lower Salmon River provides a more relaxed experience with Class II and III rapids, making it ideal for families and beginners. Recommended streamflow levels for the Salmon River range from 3,500 to 6,000 cubic feet per second for the best paddling conditions. Remember to always check current streamflow levels, wear appropriate safety gear, and paddle with a group for a safe and enjoyable whitewater adventure in Idaho.

Location Streamflow (cfs) Difficulty (class)
Headwaters To Confluence With East Fork Salmon River
80 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Three Cabins Creek
80 II-IV
Three Cabins Creek To Confluence With East Fork Salmon River
10 III
The Northern Boundary Of The Wallowa Whitman National Forest To The Confluence With The Grande Ronde River
27700 IV-III
Payette Nf Boundary On Lake Creek (Just West Marshall Lake) To To And Including Chinook Campground
488 III-IV
Chinook Campground To Ponderosa Campground
488 III-IV
West Fork Big Wood River To Confluence With Big Wood River
27 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With North Fork Big Wood River
80 III-V
Below Private Land In Section 2 To Nf Boundary
93 III-IV
Headwaters To Nf Boundary
93 NONE
Headwaters To Point Where Creek Turns Ne, Near Trail Creek Summit
32 IV-V
Kane Lake To Confluence With Summit Creek
32 III-IV
Arrowhead Lake To Wildhorse Campground
32 IV
Confluence With South Fork East Fork Salmon To Confluence With Unnamed Creek In Section 6
80 IV
Unnamed Creek To Sawtooth Nf Boundary
10 IV-V
Headwaters To Sawtooth Nf Boundary
10 III-IV
Pine Flats Creek To Long Gulch
678 III-IV
Confluence With Bell Creek To Boiling Springs Cabin
687 IV-IV
Boiling Springs Cabin To Confluence With Fool Creek
58 III-IV
Boise Nf Boundary To Confluence With Payette River
741 III-IV
Confluence Bear Valley Creek To Fcronr Wilderness Boundary
58 III-IV
Fcronr Wilderness Boundary To Confluence With North Fork Elk Creek
58 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Elk Creek
58 III-IV
Elk Creek To Fir Creek Campground
58 III
Fir Creek Campground To Boise Nf Boundary
1110 III
Long Gulch To Boise Nf Boundary
687 III
Deadwood Reservoir To Confluence With Warm Springs Creek
58 III
Warm Springs Creek To Confluence With Pine Creek
678 III-IV
Pine Creek To Confluence With South Fork Payette River
678 IV-V
Wolf Creek To Confluence With Pine Flats Creek
678 II-III
Cataldo Mission To Coeur D'Alene Lake
6490 IV
Confluence North Fork Coeur D'Alene River To Cataldo Mission
5490 III+-IV
Kootenai River
10500 III-IV
Source, Sec. 19, T39n, R13e To Road #581 Near Moose Ck, Sec. 16, T39n, R11i
271 III-IV
Road 581, Sec. 19, T39n, R13e To Mouth, Sec. 18, T39n, R10e
271 II-IV
Dworshak Reservoir, Sec. 34, T41n, R6e To Forest Road #250, Sec. 6, T40n, R11e
4790 III-IV
Dworshak Reservoir, Sec. 19, T41n, R5e To Forest Boundary, Sec. 33, T42n, R6e
4790 III-IV
Proposed Hoodoo Wilderness Boundary, Sec. 28, T10n, R26w To Mouth, Clearwater Nf
271 III-V
Hungery Creek, Sec. 24, T35n, R8e To Lochsa River, Sec. 33, T35n, R9e
3320 IV-III
Headwaters, Sec. 3, T35n, R7e To Fish Creek, Sec. 24, T35n, R8e
3320 III-IV
Sawtooth Wilderness Boundary To Confluence With Johnson Creek
678 III-IV
Johnson Creek To Confluence With Hunter Creek
678 II-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With West Fork Big Lost River
32 II-III
Headwaters To Confluence With Pole Creek
1110 III-IV
Inlet To Marsh On Spring Creek To Outlet Of Marsh On Spring Creek
102 II-IV
Mainstem West Of Palisades Reservoir Including North Fork And Deadman Creek To Palisades Reservoir
2510 II-III
Mainstem And Lower 2 Miles Of North, South And Siddoway Forks To One Mile Above Trailhead
2510 IV-V
One Mile Above Trailhead To Trailhead
2510 III-V
Confluence Of North Fork Palisades Creek And Corral Canyon To Palisades Campground
2510 III-IV
Riverside Campground To Confluence With Warm River
531 II
Pinehaven Subdivision To Riverside Campground
420 III-IV
Northern Boundary Of Harriman Park To Pinehaven Subdivision
420 IV
Box Canyon Summer Homes To Northern Boundary Of Harriman Park
420 NONE
Island Park Dam To Box Canyon Summer Homes
420 III-IV
Confluence With Bear Creek To Confluence With Hanson Creek
176 III-IV
Boise Nf Boundary (1 Mile East Of Banks) To Boise Nf Boundary (1 Mile South Of Banks)
741 II-III
Tie Canyon To Targhee Nf Boundary
2510 III-IV
Headwaters To Lady Face Falls
102 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Little Beaver Creek
102 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Salmon River
46 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Little Boulder Creek
10 NONE
Headwaters To Wilderness Boundary
102 NONE
Lady Face Falls To Inlet Stanley Lake
102 III-IV
Outlet Stanley Lake To Confluence With Valley Creek
102 II-IV
Headwaters To Western Boundary Line Of Section 17
102 III-IV
Confluence With Rabbit Creek To Confluence With Middle Fork Boise River
1620 III-IV
Boise Nf Boundary To Confluence With Willow Creek
1620 III-IV
Confluence With Granite Creek To Confluence With Pine Creek
1620 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Alta Creek
711 NONE
Alta Creek To Confluence With Feather River
711 III-V
Confluence Of Star Hope And Muldoon Creeks To Confluence With East Fork
223 III
Headwaters To Confluence With West Fork Of East Fork Big Lost River
223 III-IV
Palisades Dam To Confluence With Pine Creek
2510 IV-III
Pine Creek To Riley Diversion
2830 IV-V
Buffalo River Springs To Confluence With Elk Creek
420 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With South Fork Payette River
102 II-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Yankee Fork
46 III-IV
Confluence Of East And West Forks To Nf Boundary
93 III-IV
Western Boundary Line Of Section 17 To Confluence With Valley Creek
102 III-IV
Headwaters To Western Boundary Line Of Section 34
102 III-IV
Western Boundary Line Of Section 34 To Redfish Lake
102 NONE
Headwaters To Inlet Redfish Lake
102 III-IV
Anderson Ranch Dam To Confluence With Mennecke Creek
300 III-IV
Headwaters To Deadwood Reservoir
58 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With West Fork
93 III-IV
Nf Boundary At 4th Of July Creek To Confluence With North Fork
2140 II-III
Elk Creek To Slackwater Of Ponds Power Dam
420 III-V
Headwaters Of North And South Fork And Mainstem To Targhee Nf Boundary
480 II-IV
Source To Upper Palisades Lake
2510 IV-V
Yellowstone Np To Targhee Nf Boundary
480 III-IV
Yellowstone Np Boundary To Confluence With Warm River
223 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Trail Creek
102 III
Trail Creek To Sawtooth Nf Boundary
102 III-IV
Outlet Redfish Lake To Confluence With Salmon River
102 III-IV
Headwaters To Sawtooth Wilderness Boundary
102 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With West Fork Big Wood River
80 III-IV
Wade Creek To Nf Boundary
410 IV
Wilderness Boundary To Confluence With Middle Fork Salmon River
1110 III-IV
Headwaters To 1 Mile Downstream Of Soldier Lake
1110 III-V
Sawtooth Wilderness Boundary To Confluence With Salmon River
102 III-V
Headwaters To Inlet Pettit Lake
102 III-IV
Outlet Pettit Lake To Confluence With Alturas Lake Creek
102 III-IV
Salt River Trailhead To Nf Boundary
102 III-IV
Unnamed Lake North Of Edwards Lake (And East/West Forks) To Targhee Nf Boundary
17 NONE
Warm River Springs To Confluence With Henrys Fork
531 III-IV
Ponderosa Campground To Confluence With South Fork Salmon River
488 II-III
Headwaters To Confluence With Corral Creek
19 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Button Creek
19 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Little Wood River
32 III
Smith Creek To Confluence With Main Salmon
488 III-IV
Headwaters (Boise Nf) To Confluence With Smith Creek (Smith Creek Landing Strip) (Payette Nf)
488 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Wildhorse Creek
32 NONE
Headwaters To Section 7
71 III-IV
Headwaters To Elk Meadow Trailhead
102 III-IV
Elk Meadows Trailhead To Confluence With Valley Creek
102 III
Confluence Of Loon And Pioneer Creeks To Phillips Creek Transfer Camp
1110 III-V
Phillips Creek Transfer Camp To Confluence With Middle Fork Salmon River
1110 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Loon Creek
1110 III-IV
Headwaters To Confluence With Alturas Lake Creek
102 III-IV
Headwaters To Inlet Alteras Lake
102 III
Outlet Alteras Lake To Confluence With Salmon River
102 III-IV
Headwaters, East And North Fork Of The Yaak River To Yaak Falls, Sec. 4, T33n, R33w
9070 NONE
Wilderness Boundary To Fs Road 319
4170 II-III
Selway Bitterroot Wilderness Boundary, Sec. 35, T33n, R9e To Headwaters, Sec. 33, T33n, R10e
4170 III-IV
Headwaters (Sec 5, T32n, R10e) To Selway Bitterroot Wilderness Boundary
4170 NONE
Fs Road 319 To Selway River Road (Fs 223)
4170 III-IV
Salmon River, Sec. 22, T28n, R1e To North And South Forks Of White Bird Creek
9400 NONE
Salmon River, Sec. 36, T27n, R1e To Gospel Hump Wilderness Boundary, Sec. 31, T27n, R4e
9400 II-IV
Wilderness Boundary To Headwaters
9400 III+
Selway River, Sec. 16, T31n, R13e To Headwaters
2140 III-IV
East Fork Bull River, Headwaters, Sec. 13, T27n, R32w To Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Boundary, Sec. 3, T27n, R32w
9850 III-IV
Cabinet Mtns Wilderness Boundary, Sec. 3, T27n, R32w To Bull River, Sec. 12, T27n, R33w
9850 III
Crooked Creek, Sec. 10, T25n, R7e To Gospel Hump Wilderness Boundary
42 III+-IV
West Fork Yaak River
867 NONE
Gospel Hump Wilderness Boundary To Headwaters Near Hump Lake
42 III-IV
Salmon River, Sec. 23, T26n, R10e To North Boundary Frank Church Wilderness, Road #468
42 III-IV
Road No. 468, To Headwaters, Sec. 3, T28n, R12e
42 III-IV
Middle Fork Bull River, Sec. 9, T28n, R33w To Proposed Addition To Cabinet Mtns Wilderness, Sec. 12, T28n, R33w
9850 III-IV
Boundary Proposed Addition Cabinet Mtns Wilderness, Sec. To Cabinet Gorge Reservoir
9850 IV
Headwaters To Wade Creek
410 III-IV
Coeur D"Alene River, Sec. 8, T49n, R2e To Honey Mountain, Sec. 32, T53n, R1w
5490 III-IV
Cedar Creek, Sec. 6, T41n, R6e To Adair Creek
4790 III+-IV
Hgh Creek Lake To Nf Boundary
1100 III-IV
Bear Valley Lake To Trailhead
410 II-III
Trailhead To Confluence With Hayden Creek
410 III-IV
Hammer Creek To Confluence With Middle Fork Salmon River
1110 III-IV
Headwaters To Hammer Creek
12 III-IV
Adair Creek To Fish Lake, Sec. 4, T43n, R4e
4790 III-IV
Southern Boundary Of State Land To Mouth
1100 III-IV
Source To Mouth
1100 III-IV
Long Canyon Pass, Sec. 30, T63n, R2w To Forest Boundary, Road #417, Sec. 25, T63n, R2w
199 III-IV
Forest Boundary, Sec. 34, T59n, R2w To Harrison Lake, Sec. 31, T62n, R2w
1670 III-IV
Sec. 28, T30n, R13e To Boundary Selway Bitterroot Wilderness
2140 III-IV
South Fork Clearwater River, Sec. 30, T29n, R5e To Headwaters
42 III-IV
Clearwater River To Red And American Rivers Near Elk City
18 III+
Selway River, Sec. 11, T31n, R9e To Road Crossing, Sec. 14, T31n, R9e
4170 IV-V
Road Crossing, Sec. 14, T31n, R9e To Headwaters
4170 III-IV
Selway River, Sec. 10, T32n, R12e To Headwaters All Forks
2140 III-IV
Selway River, Sec. 22, T32n, R11e To Headwaters
4170 IV-V
Idaho State Line To Confluence With Beaver Creek
1100 III-III
Headwaters To 1 Mile Downstream Of Cut Throat Lake
1110 IV
Sawtooth Nra To Confluence With Wolf Creek
678 III-IV
Just West Of Crystal Lake To Trailhead
344 III-IV
Antelope Creek J19
2260 III-IV
Joseph Creek
27700 III-IV
Dry Creek
93 III
Cow Creek
228 II-III
Little North Fork Clearwater River
3980 III-IV
Summit Creek
42 III-IV
West Fork Morgan Creek
228 III-IV
Canyon Creek
344 IV-V
Lolo Creek
3320 III
Pole Creek
2260 III-IV
Vineyard Creek
8 III-IV
Pahsimeroi River
93 V-IV+
Noon Creek
2260 II-III
Squaw Creek
10 III-IV
Petes Creek
2260 IV
South Fork Payette
687 III-IV
East Fork Salmon River
10 III-IV
Lake Creek
924 III-V
Mahogany Creek
93 III-IV
Clearwater River
18 III-IV
French Creek
924 III-IV
Teton River
562 III
Bayhorse Creek
10 III-III
East Fork Big Lost River
32 III-IV
Pleasant Valley Creek
2260 II-IV
Thompson Creek
10 III-IV
Piute Creek
2260 III-IV
Herd Creek
32 III-IV
Yatahoney Creek
2260 IV-V
Jump Creek
73 III-IV
Little Owyhee River
2260 III-IV
South Fork Snake River
2510 II-IV
Bitch Creek
480 III
Juniper Creek
2260 III+
Corral Creek
2260 III
Boulder Creek
8050 III-IV
Cabin Creek
2260 III-IV
Bald Mountain Canyon Creek
2260 III-IV
Lund Creek
4790 IV-IV
Nickel Creek
2260 III
Little Lost Lake Creek
3980 III-IV
Big Lost River
32 III/IV-V
Rock Creek
8050 III-IV
Dukes Creek
2260 II-IV
North Fork Boulder Creek
8050 IV-V
Lost Lake Creek
3980 IV-V
Current Creek
2260 III-IV
Snake River
6880 III-IV
Salmon River
10 III-IV
Deep Creek
2260 III-IV

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