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The Middle Fork of the Salmon River THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE SALMON RIVER MIDDLE FORK RIVER EXPEDITIONS SPOKANE SEATTLE GLACIER NATIONAL PARK BOISE TO CHICAGO RENO COEUR SALT D’ALENE LAKE DENVER SAN FRANSICO MISSOULA SELWAY-BITTERROOT WILDERNESS MOSCOW LOS CLAR K O ANGELES U T LEWISTON B IS A O EW ND U PHOENIX L N D GOSPEL HUMP WILDERNESS J O DALLAS U R N E SELWAY RIVER Y RIVER OF NO RETURN WILDERNESS 95 K R A N M L O L A O C NR Y S D SAWTOOTH WILDERNESS N RIGGINS IV N A E A C R S S I ’ L W L E E L H SALMON N O M L Travel to Stanley A S E WEST YELLOWSTONE H YELLOWSTONE Commericial air service is available to McCALL T NATIONAL F O PARK K R 93 FO Boise from all major cities. Stanley is easily E CHALLIS L D 95 ID reached by car or air taxi from Boise, Hailey 55 M MT. BORAH (Sun Valley), or West Yellowstone. STANLEY 20 21 Stanley is 130 road miles from Boise, 61 28 TETON NATIONAL PARK miles from Sun Valley and 305 miles from SUN VALLEY CRATERS KETCHUM OF THE MOON BOISE NATIONAL West Yellowstone. MONUMENT IDAHO 93 FALLS 84 MTN. HOME BIRDS MIXED FOREST OF PREY NATURAL AREA POCATELLO SEMI-ARID GRASSLAND WILDERNESS AREA TWIN FALLS 0 50 LEWIS & CLARK OUTBOUND ROUTE MILES 84 THE RIVER RUNS WILD AND FREE Raft Idaho’s Legendary Middle Fork-Salmon River Experience Spectacular Wilderness. The river beckons. Escape to an unhurried atmosphere of natural beauty. Explore a part of primitive America as it once was and still is. This is country that offers you both adventure and solitude. Discover lasting friendships around warm campfires. Come to the Idaho wilderness for a vacation you won’t find anywhere else in the world: a raft trip on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. dirt streets and log buildings dating to a charming rustic resort lodge at the the turn of the century. Here, the lake offers homestyle dining. IT imposing Sawtooth Mountains spiral Ever see a ghost? You can when you skyward, casting their wild and jutting visit the old ghost town of Custer. A ALL shadows across Stanley Basin and designated historic site with museum Sawtooth Valley. and abandoned gold dredge to explore, STARTS Surrounded by 360 degree picture- you can still see the original blacksmith book scenery, you’ll find a variety of shop, saloon, and bawdy house. natural and man-made wonders. Here Just over the hill from Stanley lies IN is the perfect place to begin and end world-famous Sun Valley, with your Middle Fork vacation. championship golf and tennis, STANLEY, Commercial air service is available boutiques and fine European cuisine. through Boise or Hailey, connecting Yellowstone and Glacier National to Stanley via rental car or air taxi to Parks, Jackson Hole and the Tetons, IDAHO the town’s convenient airstrip. Hell’s Canyon – They’re all in this neck And if you’re looking for nightlife, of the woods and would make a great Your river adventure begins in a high get out your dancing shoes. Every night stop either before or after your Middle mountain meadow in the old west of the week you can hear cowboy boots Fork vacation. town of Stanley, Idaho, population 69. and tennis shoes clattering, pounding This area was discovered in 1822 by and shuffling across the dance floor as Begin Your Adventure an expedition of trappers from the people do the “Stanley Stomp.” Folks at Road’s End Hudson’s Bay Company and visited sure know how to have fun in Stanley! When a raft trip begins on the Middle later by mountain men and prospectors There’s more… Fork it can truly be said that “the road looking for the mother lode. It remains ends here.” Rafting the river is the best today a picturesque frontier town of Sights and Sidetrips access to this magnificent wilderness A Middle fork vacation provides much retreat as the Middle Fork cuts a deep more than the excitement of the river. swath through the mountainous terrain. It offers you a land rich in history. Beginning at the crisp-aired elevation From cascading whitewater to soul healing riverside campfire, your vacation on the Come and live the experience of of 5,700 feet, the Middle Fork of the Middle Fork of the Salmon has something another time, another place. Salmon rushes and tumbles for more for everyone. An old miners’ cabin and Indian pictographs stir the imagination. Redfish Lake, five miles from Stanley, than 100 miles through the heart of Spectacular waterfalls and scenic mountain has long been renowned for its the famed Idaho wilderness. The rafts lakes are you reward for exploring the Sawtooth Mountains and the Stanley Basin spectacular beauty and as a mecca for push off at Boundary Creek, 40 miles -- before or after your river trip. water sports. Enjoy fine fishing, water northwest of Stanley. Here begins your skiing, even wind surfing. In addition, white-water adventure. EXPLORE THE WILDERNESS The Middle Fork is surrounded by the On the river’s upper end, the forest is largest wilderness area in the lower 48 thick with Douglas fir and lodgepole pine. states, the 2.4 million-acre Frank Church- Downriver, majestic ponderosa pines tower River of No Return Wilderness. Brushing to staggering heights. Other principal shoulders to the north and northwest are species include quaking aspen, narrowleaf the Selway-Bitterroot and Gospel Hump cottonwood and Englemann spruce. As wilderness areas, encompassing more than the river loses elevation, the landscape 3.7 million acres – America’s finest changes. Mountain mahogany, bitterbrush unspoiled treasure. and sagebrush appear, and suddenly you It’s not unusual to spot mule deer and find yourself in a high desert environment. bighorn sheep in this vast wilderness. And If geology’s your passion, Impassable if you have a keen eye, you might even Canyon will surely impress you. Not only sight a shy bob-cat or the shaggy recluse is the canyon a half mile deeper than the of the river, the mountain goat. Playful Grand Canyon, but its steep and craggy river otter will amuse you as they bob up granite walls make it virtually impassable and down in the river’s riffles. Birds, too, – except by raft. abound. Overhead majestic eagles soar, and belted kingfishers, western tanagers Wild and Free…Forever! and mountain bluebirds line the riverbanks. Congress has designated the Middle In summer, the alpine meadows come Fork as a “Wild and Scenic River,” ablaze with a stunning carpet of ensuring that it will remain forever as it wildflowers. Indian paintbrush, elephant is now – clean, wild and free. No dams, heads, lupine and shooting stars burst forth roads or pollution. The Middle Fork offers to cover nature’s finest canvas. only the best of Mother Nature’s work. The Middle Fork truly defies Power boats are not allowed on this classification. It cannot be called an alpine, river because of its wild and scenic nor a semi-arid or desert river as it drops designation. The U.S. Forest Service issues 2,700 feet in elevation during the 100 a limited number of use permits to assure mile trip. It’s all of these – and more – that the river and the campsites along its rolled into one twisting free flowing river banks will not be overcrowded and that plunges through the Idaho wilderness, overused. Nothing is allowed to spoil the rushing to the sea. land – or your experience. “A lot of state, this Idaho, that I didn’t know about.” –Ernest Hemingway, 1939 The Middle Fork carves its path through the Boise, Challis, Payette and Salmon national forests. With an average drop of 27 feet per mile and more than 100 rapids, the Middle Fork boasts the finest combination of thrilling whitewater, extraordinary scenery, varied history and abundant wildlife of any river in America. Middle Fork rapids are rated 1 to 4 on a scale of 1 to 6. You’ll ride these rapids with the aid of experienced, professional, licensed guides. In your state-of-the-art whitewater raft, you’ll float Velvet Falls, Pistol Creek, Haystack, Redside and Rubber rapids. When water level permits you can enjoy our paddle raft or single inflatable kayaks. You will come to understand why the Middle Fork attracts adventure enthusiasts from around the globe – there’s no finer all- around whitewater wilderness experience to be found. As the river eases you away from everyday problems, enjoy the abundant wildlife and fragrant wildflowers. Settle in. Join the group in fun activities or explore your surroundings in solitude. You will be surprised that all this relaxation makes you so hungry. Go ahead. Have a second helping. LIVE THE RIVER’S RICH HISTORY Fishing? It’s blue ribbon and just one each year as the water warms in spring the early morning breakfast feast. Eggs, more feature that’s made the Middle they move back up the length of the bacon, pancakes, fresh fruit – here in Fork famous! Fisherman, both fly and Middle Fork. Dolly Varden and the wilderness? You bet! spin cast, have long savored the rainbow trout also inhabit the river in After breakfast, you walk upstream, memory of landing a Middle Fork great numbers. sit on a rock at river’s edge, and trout. Nothing fights like a Middle Fork daydream for awhile, enjoying the Middle Fork fish are natives – there rainbow, and cutthroat the size of a solitude. There’s no rush here, no traffic isn’t a planter in the bunch.
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