rivers.run

Tucker Willenborg

About this app

Rivers.run provides water levels, water temperature, and other information, using data collected from over 10,000 gauges. It matches this information with crowdsourced paddling expertise to tell you what a river height actually means, and to provide skill level estimates.

You can use GPS coordinates to find rivers near you, and search rivers by water levels, skill, name, and rating, as well as user provided tags and dam releases, helping you find whitewater (or flatwater) rivers that you want to paddle.

River flow levels are currently sourced from USGS (United States Geological Survey), NWS (National Weather Service), and the Meterological Service of Canada. Additional sources for gauges are planned for the future.

Information on rivers.run is crowdsourced - so if your favorite river is not available, is missing information on runnable levels, or has other issues, you can help improve it. Just go to the FAQ page in app (or to https://rivers.run/FAQ), to find directions on how to get started. If you need any assistance, you can send an email to [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

Incredibly useful tool for whitewater paddlers. This will only get better and better as more boaters submit data through the highly intuitive feedback tools included in the app.

It is very helpful finding out the waterl levels and the rapid size of each river.

Def has all the info you need but not the easiest to use or best designed app out there - sincerely appreciate the dev making this available

What's new

Modernization updates
Contrast improvements
Fixed link capturing