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- What Canyons Provides
Drive Option
Flight Option
Suggested reading for your whitewater trip
- What Canyons provides
 We'll provide a waterproof bag (16" diameter by 32" high) for your clothes and sleeping bag. Each person will also get a smaller waterproof dry bag for day-use items including your camera, sunscreen, and other toiletries. The raft cargo boxes can accommodate extra items such as a video camera or liquor. We provide roomy dome tents, camp chairs, souvenir water bottles, life jackets, helmets, and farmer-john style wet suits if the weather is cool.
Find a list of what to bring click here.
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- Drive Option
 If you have chosen the "Drive Option" option you are responsible for your own transportation to and from the river. Download the PDF file below and find a map, tips and contact information for river shuttles.
Click here to download PDF
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- Flight Option
 Most of our guests prefer the convenience of our FLIGHT OPTION, which includes air transportation from Boise to the river put-in at the beginning of your trip, and from the take-out back to Boise at the trip’s conclusion. We can arrange this for you for an estimated cost of $400 per person (ask us about combo trip rates).
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- The small-plane flight departs Boise at 7:30 am on the day of the launch, and returns you to Boise at approximately 5:30 pm on the day of the take out. We’ll meet you, and return you to, the McCall Air ticket counter inside the main Boise air terminal, near baggage claim. Bus transportation takes you between airstrips and the river. Most hotels have courtesy vans to transport you to and from the airport.
Flights from other Idaho cities can be arranged. Please call us for assistance and quotes. To accommodate space and weight constraints, your baggage must be limited to 40 lbs./person and be packed into duffel bags or soft packs; no suitcases, external frame packs, or wheeled luggage.
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- Suggested reading for your whitewater trip
 No relaxing vacation is complete without some summer reading, so bring along a book, or choose one from our portable library. If you are interested in local Salmon River lore, river legends, or natural history, check out our list of suggested titles.
Contact the Forest Service for waterproof maps of the rivers: Main Salmon, 208-865-2383, Middle Fork, 208-879-4101. Maps can also be purchased at each river put-in.
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- Suggested Titles:
Idaho's Salmon River, A river runner's Guide to the River of No Return ~ Corn Creek to Carey Creek
Rapids, camps, trails, GPS coordinates, and more. Printed on waterproof paper. By Eric & Allison Newell. Order at blackcanyonguides.com
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River, A Comprehensive Guide
Detailed maps, rapid description, hiking, geology, camps, history, in a mile-by-mile format. Printed on waterproof paper. By Matt Leidecker. Order at middleforkbook.com
Salmon River Country
Wilderness essays by Stephen Stuebner and photographs by Mark Lisk. An awe-inspiring study, in word and picture, of one of the last wild places in the United States.
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- Impassable Canyon
Matt Leidecker, Impassable Canyon captures wild and scenic views and once-in-a-lifetime stories from adventurers who have floated their way through Idaho's magnificent River of No Return Wilderness. Order at middleforkbook.com
The River of No Return
Johnny Carrey and Cort Conley (historical mile-by-mile account of the Main Salmon, including topographical maps indicating mileage and some rapids)
The Middle Fork, A Guide,
Johnny Carrey and Cort Conley (historical mile-by-mile account of the Middle Fork, including topographical maps indicating mileage and some rapids)
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- Indians of Idaho,
Deward E. Walker, Jr.
Idaho Loners,
Cort Conley (a look into the lives of Idaho hermits)
The Last of the Mountain Men,
Harold Peterson (the biography of Sylvan Hart, a.k.a. Buckskin Bill, who lived on the Main Salmon River)
Spirits of the Salmon River,
Kathy Deinhardt Hill (an historical profile of the people buried along the River of No Return)
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