The Middlefork of the Salmon River

One of the premium Idaho river rafting experiences is rafting the Middle Fork of the Salmon River through the heart of Idaho's back country in the River of No Return Wilderness Area.  We float 100 miles in six days, dropping 3000 feet in elevation. The gradient of nearly 30 feet per mile offers very good, technical, white-water. The river grows as it drops, and the canyon changes from lodgepole pine forest to ponderosa pine, to mixed timber and open grassy slopes and finally, in Impassable Canyon, dramatic sheer granite cliffs, rising to peaks six to seven thousand feet above the river. This is one of the deepest canyons in Idaho. Rafting is the only access to this part of the Middle Fork.