Rogue River Travel Information
The Rogue River roams 215 miles across southwestern Oregon from its
headwaters at Boundary Springs, just inside Crater Lake National Park,
to where it spills into the Pacific near the town of Gold Beach. Along
the way, the river traverses diverse landscape including pumice flats,
pine forests, deep gorges, farmlands, and orchards. Wildlife seen
along the river can include black bear, river otters, bald eagles,
ospreys, great blue herons, and water ouzels. Almost 82 miles of
the river have been designated Wild and Scenic, in two sections: part
of the Upper Rogue (through the Rogue River National Forest), from the
headwaters south to near the town of Prospect, and the Rogue Canyon
section of the Lower Rogue, from near the town of Galice west to near
Agness. The Upper Rogue scenic waterway, high in the Cascades,
traverses the volcanic landscape created by the eruption of Mount
Mazama, including nearly vertical incised pumice canyons and a lava
tube arching across the entire river at Natural Bridge. The Lower
Rogue canyon is a landscape of near-vertical cliffs and razor-sharp
ridges. The Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway along the upper river provides
access to endless camping and hiking possibilities in the Rogue and
Umpqua national forests and wilderness, including the Upper Rogue
River National Recreation Trail. The trail is also exceptional
through the Wild Rogue River Canyon Wilderness, connecting to segments
such as the Hellgate Overlook and Rainey Falls Trail, which give
hikers views of these extraordinary class IV and V rapids from the
safety of land. The Rogue Canyon ranks as one of the top 10
whitewater locations in the U.S., attracting rafters and kayakers from
around the world. And thanks to the Cole Rivers fish hatchery, the
largest hatchery on the West Coast, fish runs on the Rogue are second
only to those on the Columbia. To learn more about the Rogue River
area, please select a topic of interest from the navigation bar on the
left.
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