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The Salmon River, also known as the "River of No Return", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2 ).
It begins in Wyoming and flows through Idaho for 769 miles (1,238 km), and then through Oregon and Washington. Some of the other streams also cross borders between Idaho and Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, or Wyoming, but the majority flow entirely within Idaho, the longest of which is the Salmon River at 425 miles (684 km).
The first Euro-Americans to reach the Snake River watershed were the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who in August 1805 crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass and descended to the Salmon River at what is now Salmon, Idaho, naming the stream "Lewis's River". Thwarted by the river's rapids, they were forced to cross the Bitterroot Mountains via ...
The Little Salmon River rises at an elevation of 6,280 feet (1,915 m) above sea level on Blue Bunch Ridge in the Sawtooth Range of south-central Idaho, near Payette Lake. From there, it flows north through the broad Meadows Valley past Meadows and New Meadows , where it receives Goose Creek from the right and Mud Creek from the left.
Little Salmon River. Rapid River; South Fork Salmon River. ... Bear River (Great Salt Lake) – Bear River in SE Idaho, SW Wyoming, and NE Utah corner; Beaver dam ...
The South Fork Salmon River is an 86-mile (138 km) [2] tributary of the Salmon River in Idaho and Valley Counties in central Idaho. [1] The river drains a rugged, lightly populated wilderness watershed in the Salmon River Mountains. It is the second-largest tributary of the Salmon River, after the Middle Fork.
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River is a 104-mile-long (167 km) river in central Idaho in the northwestern United States. [1] It is a tributary to the Salmon River , and lies in the center of the 2.5-million-acre (3,900 sq mi; 10,000 km 2 ) Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area .
The Act also added 125 miles (200 km) of the Salmon River to the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. President Carter had taken his family on a three-day float trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in August 1978, accompanied by Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, [9] the former (and future) Idaho governor.