Looking upstream at Marble Creek Camp, Middle Fork Salmon, mile 31.6

What's New...

Apr 17 - Launched White Water Rafting Rivers - a new website with Google Maps of the major rafting trip rivers.
Mar 23 - Started integrating satellite photos. Click here to see Boundary Creek on the Middle Fork of the Salmon
Feb 26 - Launched new rafting e-book: Multi-day White Water Rafting Trips - An Introduction
Dec 23 - Added 100+ new photos of Main Salmon scenery and 30 camps
Nov 15 - Lots of new photos of 12 of the Yampa camps
Oct 14 - Started coverage of Cataract Canyon with photos of rapids, scenery and 6 camps; thanks Mike Taylor


Planning a river rafting trip? You'll be camping, but do you know where? This site is a gallery of photos of river campsites, covering more than 400 campsites on the most popular white water rivers in the Western US. Each campsite has its own photo album. And each river has its own albums containing photos of the river scenery and rapids.

Select the river from the list at left to see its campsite list. Then click on a campsite name to see thumbnails of the photos in that campsite's album. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger picture. Click on that larger picture to see the original, full-resolution photograph.

Campsite names are prefixed by the river mile so they appear in the order you encounter them on rafting trips. Additional albums for each river contain pictures of raft put-in and take-out facilities, rapids, and interesting features of the river that may influence your river trip logistics or campsite selection. And throughout this site are hundreds of photos of folks just like you camping on their favorite rivers, and the specialized camping gear used in the sport of whitewater rafting.

Whitewatercampsites.com is a community effort. As you view the campsite pictures, feel free to contribute your own comments about the joys, features, or hazards of camping there, or suitability in low or high water conditions, hiking opportunities, or about rafting trips on that river in general. Comments can be entered for the campsite as a whole and for any individual photograph.

This website is made possible by the generous contributions of the folks listed below. If you have photos that show the character of white water campsites, camping on white water rafting trips, or river scenery that you'd like to contribute to this site, I invite you to e-mail them to me at will.hansenATsomecompany.net. (Just fix up and substitute "verizon" into my e-mail address.) High resolution photos in jpg format are best, and please be sure to note the river name, the river mile, and campsite names so I know where to post each picture.

Enjoy, River Rafting Trip Advice and Opinion...
Will Hansen Here are some thoughts that may help you plan your river trips
* How to get the best campsites for your rafting trips on the Middle Fork and Main Salmon
* What is whitewater rafting all about?
* Comments on camping equipment and raft equipment for river trips
* Camping gear checklists for river rafting trips


WhitewaterCampsites.com is made possible by the following individuals:

Brandon Wilhite Nick Borelli Karrie Jo Holmes Sarah Bryant
Jeff Van Ess Tom Martin Tim Loser Kevin Moyles
Kelly Egan Judi Stiegler David Blum Zachary Collier
Kerry Walsh Chris Schiller John Thunstrom Scott Coultas
Steve Christensen Steve Thompson Pete Weber Jim Lee
Hugh Cooke Darren Vaughan Shane Rasmussen Steve Rich
Rik Moran Mike Taylor Jed Miller Taylor McKinnon
Vince Thompson Walter Bernauer Paul Vanderheiden George Kuvinka
Marty Wilson Lanny Harward David Delagarza Dean Barber
Teresa Penbrooke Mike Glasgow Scott Lind Paul Vermilya
Brian Vogt David Levine Marshall Nichols Bruce Bradshaw
Gary Lewandowski Dave Jackson Nick Ellis Tubby & Deanna Tubbs



River Connection


Rivers:

Alsek (Alaska)
Bruneau
Colorado - Cataract Canyon
Colorado - Grand Canyon
Colorado - Westwater
Deschutes
Dirty Devil
Dolores
Flathead North Fork
Flathead South Fork
Grande Ronde
Green - Desolation-Gray
Green - Labyrinth-Stillwater
Green - Lodore Canyon
Illinois
John Day North Fork
Lower Salmon
Lower San Juan
Main Salmon
Middle Fork Salmon
Owyhee 3Forks To Rome
Owyhee North Fork
Owyhee South Fork
Rogue
Salt
Selway
Smith (Montana)
Snake - Hells Canyon
Tieton
Tuolumne
Upper Animas
Yampa


Features:

Interesting Situations!
Trip Reports and River Stories
"I pimped my raft!"
Wish you were here...
Past Cover Photos
Past Cover Photos #2
The Worst Camps!
Site Map
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