Little White Salmon River
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The Little White Salmon River is a tributary
of the Columbia River
starting in Gifford Pinchot National Forest
and dumping out in the Columbia at Drano Lake, which is itself an arm of the Bonneville Pool. Its drainage is 135 square miles (349.6 km²), with only 513 people living in the basin.
The last 3 miles (5 km) of the Little White Salmon River fall 240 ft/mi, creating one of the finest whitewater kayaking
trips in the United States.
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
of the Columbia River
Columbia River
The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...
starting in Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in southern Washington, USA. With an area of 1.37 million acres , it extends 116 km along the western slopes of Cascade Range from Mount Rainier National Park to the Columbia River. It includes the 110,000 acre Mount St....
and dumping out in the Columbia at Drano Lake, which is itself an arm of the Bonneville Pool. Its drainage is 135 square miles (349.6 km²), with only 513 people living in the basin.
The last 3 miles (5 km) of the Little White Salmon River fall 240 ft/mi, creating one of the finest whitewater kayaking
Whitewater kayaking
Whitewater kayaking is the sport of paddling a kayak on a moving body of water, typically a whitewater river. Whitewater kayaking can range from simple, carefree gently moving water, to demanding, dangerous whitewater. River rapids are graded like ski runs according to the difficulty, danger or...
trips in the United States.