Owyhee River Rafting
Southeast Oregon
4 or 5
days
April 1 - May 31
Class III+ |
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The Owyhee River flows through a land of striking beauty.
Join
our Owyhee river rafting trip and you'll find yourself on a remarkable
journey through remote, high desert country. In our opinion this
seldom-visited wilderness river provides the Northwest's most unique and
rare whitewater adventure. Recognizing the Owyhee's spectacular desert scenery and
pristine
wilderness qualities, in 1985 Congress designated the
Owyhee a Federal
Wild and Scenic River.
The Owyhee has been called Oregon's Grand Canyon.
And with good reason. Owyhee river rafters discover multicolored spires,
dramatic canyons and sculpted grottos: scenery, in
fact, that is a match for the better-known canyons of the American
southwest. The
scenery is superb. But the Owyhee has more to offer as well.
Imagine
yourself soaking in natural hot springs while watching a desert sunset
fade on dramatic canyon walls. Then imagine yourself hiking through a
fairyland of colorful, eroded rock pinnacles and canyons then refilling
your canteen with pure water at a lovely desert oasis. And imagine
yourself running the Owyhee's lively rapids, including Whistling Bird, Squeeze, and
Montgomery, then between rapids scanning the shore and sky for bighorn sheep,
antelope, and the over 100 species of birds that make their home here, or
stopping to view petroglyphs and puzzling at their meaning. Imagine all
this and you'll begin to get a sense of why the Owyhee is the river our
guides feel most privileged to share with you.
The Owyhee can only be rafted in the Spring,
when upstream snowmelt brings life to the canyon and creates challenging rapids. This is the most remote, secluded and pristine
trip we run. Many of our guests come back to join us again and again, and sooner or
later they all want to run this one. This is a
very special river: rare and wild, isolated and pure.
Join us for a true wilderness adventure you will always
remember.
Trip fee includes the services of our
professional guides, and the use of tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads,
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"We especially want to let you know how great your guides
were. They were absolutely tops: professional, warm, friendly and fun. Good
cooks, too. We look forward to another adventure with O.R.E.!"
Patty Packard and Joel Fowler |
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chairs, waterproof river bags, lifejackets, and top quality rafts and river
running equipment. Trip fee also includes all meals, from lunch on the first day
through lunch on the last day, and transportation to our launch point from the town of Jordan Valley, and from our
take-out back to Jordan Valley at trip’s end. (O.R.E. now offers shuttle
services to and from the Boise airport for our guests for an additional fee. Please
contact our office for details.)
Our trips meet at 7:30
AM Mountain Time (6:30 AM Pacific Time) at the
Basque Station Motel in the town of Jordan Valley. Jordan Valley is approximately 425 miles southeast of Portland,
and roughly 75 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho.
O.R.E.
operates these trips under a special use permit issued by the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management. O.R.E. is an equal opportunity service provider.
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