River Guide

Each river is tagged with a variety of categories which allows them to be organized via class, location, length, and features. You can find rivers in one of four ways, using the custom search tool, using the categories, using the map, or using the alphabetical index. Updating and editing rivers is a very simple process and all you need to do is click the little 'edit' button you will see on river pages when logged in. It is crucial that this database stays clean organized so that it is easy to use, with this in mind please read Editing River Entries. If you would like to add a river to this database it is very simple and will take about 5 minutes; Add A River.

Using the drop down boxes below select the categories you would like to see and push submit. For example if you wanted to see all Class III and Class IV Creeks in the Northern Rockies you would select 'Class_iii', 'Class_iv', 'Creeking', and 'Northern_Rockies'. Keep in mind if your search is too narrow it may give you no results. All of the categories are optional and you could even submit it all blank to see a complete list of rivers. The '+' signs are necessary for the search algorithm to work.

Difficulty BlankClass_IClass_IIClass_IIIClass_IVClass_V Second Difficulty +BlankClass_IClass_IIClass_IIIClass_IVClass_V Type +Blank+Creeking+Playboating+River_Run+Canoeing Location +Blank+Northern_Rockies+Central_Rockies+Southern_Rockies+BC_Interior+Other_Location Time +Blank+Couple_Hours+Half_Day+Full_Day+Multi_Day Season +Blank+Spring+Spring_Summer+Spring_Summer_Fall+Year_Round

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Click a category to see all rivers in that category along with all the other categories the river is in.

Download the original Google Earth file here:padddlingabc.com_rivers.kml (updated August 13, 2010). This map serves to give a general geographic overview of where rivers are located. The red reference points near the individual rivers provide links to the entries in the river guide.