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... |
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| Will Hansen | Here are some thoughts that may help you plan your river trips |
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* 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 |
