RIVER RAFTING
Portland Oregon Rafting Trips and Whitewater Information
Clackamas River Rafting Guided Trips
River Description / Natural History
The Upper Clackamas River, a superb whitewater waterway, is located about an hour from downtown Portland, just southeast of the town of Estacada. The Clackamas offers scenic cliffs and steep, fir-mantled canyon walls. More than twenty miles of outstanding whitewater are found here, where the river cuts deeply into hard formations of volcanic andesite and basalt. This is the place for Portland Oregon rafting!
Clackamas tiver trips
offer powerful intermediate to advanced whitewater during the spring flows and
fun class III stretch during summer flows, ideal for
family
rafting trips. The Middle Clackamas, flowing just west of Estacada, offers
relaxing and scenic class II whitewater, ideal for canoeing and beginning
kayaking. This, combined with great scenery, good camping and close proximity
to Portland make the Clackamas the ideal adventure getaway in Oregon. Simply
put, there is no better river for rafting near Portland!
Commercially guided Clackamas trips are available on throughout the spring and summer. These trips are very convenient full day or half-day trips, and are ideal for experienced river enthusiasts, first-timers, families and independent travelers. We invite you to visit the Destination Wilderness website for more information on the Clackamas and other Oregon rafting trips.
River flows for rafting are generally higher in the spring and early summer and offer greater challenge and excitement. As summer advances the river flows level out and offer fantastic family whitewater rafting adventures for all ages and levels of experience.
For information on other great Oregon and Idaho rafting rivers, please click on the links below.