American Whitewater

Greg @ American Whitewater

About this app

Founded in 1954, American Whitewater is a national non-profit organization (Non-profit # 23-7083760) with a mission “to conserve and restore America's whitewater resources and to enhance opportunities to enjoy them safely.” American Whitewater is a membership organization representing a broad diversity of individual whitewater enthusiasts, river conservationists, and more than 100 local paddling club affiliates across America. The organization is the primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States, and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve the goals within its mission.

Ratings and reviews

This was a solid 4.5 to 5 star app until the format was changed. As a boater in a state with mostly rain-dependent runs who wants to rally a crew quickly to an option all agree on, having status of all runs in the states I selected with the additional option to show runnable ("in the green") rivers only was a valuable tool. The update makes you go through several steps to find run status. You must look up each run separately, and runnable results aren't shown in aggregate. Too cumbersome.

Loss of functionality after the update is very frustrating. Having to click past the welcome message every time you open the app, no way to save a list of favorites, the map screen zooms all the way out every time you click out of the gauge you were looking at, and it kicks you back to the home page not your search results every time you hit back on a page. The main thing I used the app for was to save all of my local rivers so I could check the flows at a glance. That functionality is gone.

the new update is abismal!!!! I lost all of my saved rivers and can no longer save rivers to my favorites to keep a close eye on specific rivers. As a guide it was easy and simple every morning to check water levels but in my busy morning I am not going to take the time to search for my river each time I check the app. which is constantly throughout the day!

What’s new

This release includes minor bug fixes and enhancements.