Why Choose Main Salmon River Rafting with Aggipah River Trips?

River Rafting Adventures on the Main Salmon River, the River of No Return, offers excellent Idaho white water rafting intermingled with placid pools, magnificent mountain scenery and beautiful sand beaches. Most of the Salmon River gorge is timbered, reaching 5000 feet or more to the ridges above. Elevation is moderate, beginning at 3000 feet, so summer temperatures are warm, ideal for family white water rafting. We float 80 miles in six days.

Main Salmon River Photo Gallery

Main Salmon River Rafting Adventures in the Spring offer a greater number and variety of big game along with magnificent views of the mountain sides blooming with spring green grass and wildflowers. The days are cooler making that first steaming cup of coffee in the morning a treat you just can't mimic at any other time.

Even on Summer Main Salmon River Trips we see bighorn sheep and sometimes deer or bear. With a gradient of 12 feet per mile, rapids are moderate compared to other Idaho whitewater rafting trips. less technical than the Middle Fork, and more frequent than on the Lower Salmon. Even in low water, the Main Salmon River provides some of the best white water rafting in Idaho. We usually stop at a hot spring. We do some fishing, but this is not primarily a fishing trip. Water temperature is warmer than the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, with more sand beaches, so swimming is a more popular family river rafting activity than on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.

Family White Water Rafting Vacations on the Main Salmon River with more beaches, warmer water, and moderate rapids compared to the Middle Fork, the Main Salmon River is an excellent Idaho river trip for families with grade school age kids. It is also more ideal for kayaking in inflatable kayaks. Group size is usually 8-12 people, and charter Main Salmon river rafting trips can be arranged throughout the summer. Our nicest camps are on the Main Salmon River, mostly on sandbars. We can also offer family white water rafting trip on the Main Salmon River with no camping, staying in lodges each night. Because of secure road access and adequate volume of flow, the Main Salmon River provides the most dependable whitewater rafing in Idaho.

Experience the Old West on your Family River Rafting Trip where prospectors began to penetrate this area of Idaho in the 1860's and 70's, and rugged characters they were. Supply was infrequent, by wooden sweepboats or pack mules. Winters were long in the Salmon River canyon, snow and ice-bound. We stop to examine their decaying cabins and sample fruit from the trees they planted and wonder at a way of life gone forever.

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