My homemade seakayak - see Boat Building page
This not so little river guide focuses on canoe and kayak rivers in Colorado. Many local folks ask me where to put in and take out and what the river is like. This guide is an attempt to answer those questions. If I can put enough pictures and description on these web pages, there should be no need to go on these rivers. With the availability of Google Earth I suggest you "fly" over the section of river you want to run. Check the date of the Google Earth images. Things can change since the satellite photos were taken and water levels are important. I still update this river guide as I hear about changes. For example with the removal of the Harland Dam and the "Trash Collector" on the Gunnison River, it is now possible to paddle from the confluence of the North Fork to the Redlands Dam.
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Trips, maps, and places to paddle:
- Rocky Mountain Canoe Club
- Colorado SUP Recreation, Racing, Fitness, and River Wave Surfing
- Rocky Mountain Sea Kayak Club
- www.meetup.com/FrontRangePaddleSports
- BLM Colorado Recreation
- BLM Utah River Running Site
- All About Rivers
- Mountain Buzz
- Nebraska River Trails
- River Maps
- Paddle On - Southwest Float Trips
Permitted Rivers:
- Western River Permit Information
- Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association
- Streamflow San Juan River at Bluff, Utah
River Protection and Access:
Whitewater:
Streamflows & Snowpacks:
- Sign up for water alerts from USGS
- USGS Streamflows for Colorado
- USGS Streamflows for Utah
- UPPER COLORADO RESERVOIR DATA
- Streamflows Colorado Dept of Natural Resources
Lots of Links:
Racing:
- Lake Dillon Challenge
- Surf Ski News
- Two Harbors Kayak Festival
- Chicago Shoreline Marathon
- Canoe Colorado Race Results
- FIBARK
- Sound Rowers Open Water Rowing and Paddling Club
- Eppie's Great Race
- Southern California Ocean Racing
- Texas Water Safari
- Yukon Quest Canoe Race
- United States Canoe Association
- AuSable Canoe Race
- General Clinton Canoe Race
- Hawaii solo Canoe Racing
- United States Canoe Kayak Team
- Expedition Canoe Racing
- Fast Kayak
- Colorado Dragon Boat Racing
- Fit2paddle
- Virtual Racing
- Davey Hearn whitewater racing site
- Epic Kayaks
- We-no-nah Racing Canoes
- Savage River Racing Canoes
- Zaveral Racing Equipment
Bonus:
SMALL DOWNLOADS:
Wild Ride through Gypsum Creek Rapid on the San Juan River (stills, no video) (Marci paddling and Jerry taking the pictures)
Action sequence on the Chama River in New Mexico (stills, no video)
The Shark (video1 MB download, postage stamp size video) 3:30
BIG DOWNLOADS: If you have a 56Kbps modem, forget the big download files, 1 MB download takes about 5 minutes. But there might be hope for hapless modem users. Try this: Right-click the link and choose "Save Target as . . ." Notice where you save it on your local drive, then go to lunch while it downloads. After lunch run the video from the location you saved it on your computer.
Windows Media Player download site.
The Shark (video 21 MB download Windows Media Player Compatible) 3:30
Eskimo Roll Demo (video 16 MB download) Windows Media Player compatible
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This web site is created by Jerry Nolan. All photos, unless credited otherwise, are credited to Jerry and Marci Nolan
