Crutcher's Crossing to Three Forks
🔒 Permit
Owyhee River
OR, ID, NV • US
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The Owyhee River drains a vast, roadless high-desert canyon country in
southeastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho, and northern Nevada. The Lower
Owyhee from Rome to Leslie Gulch is one of the West's classic multi-day
desert floats — 65 miles of Class II-III through deep rhyolite canyons
with hot springs and archaeology. Flows are entirely snowmelt-dependent
with a short spring window (typically March-June).
346.0 mi total
4 sections
8 access points
25 camps
17 rapids
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Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river. Purple lines = permit-required sections.
Sections (4)
Middle Owyhee (Three Forks to Rome)
● Three Forks
→
● Rome Launch
35.0 mi
🏕 11
🌊 6
💧 87 cfs · low
Class III-V
🔒 Permit
Lower Owyhee (Rome to Leslie Gulch)
● Rome Launch
→
● Leslie Gulch
65.0 mi
🏕 11
🌊 8
💧 87 cfs · low
Class II-III
🔒 Permit
South Fork Owyhee (Garat to Three Forks)
● Garat (South Fork)
→
● Three Forks
35.0 mi
🏕 3
🌊 3
💧 81 cfs · low
Class III-IV