Rivers.run - River Levels

Tucker Willenborg

About this app

Real-time river levels and crowdsourced paddling beta for whitewater paddlers. Rivers.run covers 10,000+ rivers and creeks across the US, Canada, and the UK & Ireland.

Match live gauge data with hard-won local knowledge: flow color-coding, rapid-by-rapid descriptions, access points, and difficulty ratings, all in one place. Flow data comes straight from government gauges — USGS, Environment Canada, and the UK & Ireland — alongside NOAA forecasts. River descriptions, access points, and runnable levels are crowdsourced by the paddling community.

KEY FEATURES

Live Flows & Forecasts
See current levels from USGS, Environment Canada, UK, and Ireland gauges, with simple low/runnable/high color coding. Dig into 28-day history graphs and NOAA forecasts to plan ahead. Switch freely between imperial and metric (CFS/CMS, ft/m, °F/°C).

Interactive Map & Weather Radar
Discover nearby rivers, view live weather radar (US), and tap any run for gauge readings, access points, and rapid descriptions.

Offline Navigation (USA-only)
Easy, free state-by-state map downloads keep you oriented when your signal disappears. Find put-ins and take-outs, get directions, and follow your live GPS location with no cell service at all — your favorites, lists, and saved flows come along too.

Powerful Search & Filtering
Find your next trip by water level, difficulty class, distance, region, custom tags, and more — then sort by what's running right now.

Flow Alerts That Find Rare Runs
Star the runs you care about and get an alert the moment they come into your preferred range — perfect for creeks that only run a few days a year. Prefer the big picture? Switch to a daily email digest of conditions, delivered at a time you choose.

Custom Lists & Sync
Build river lists by region, difficulty, or trip plan, and sync them across all your devices.

Apple Watch
Sync your lists to the companion Apple Watch app and check levels from the trailhead.

Community-Driven
Can't find your local creek? Disagree with a runnable level? The map is crowdsourced: anyone can suggest edits, new access points, or a fresh run write-up, and our moderators review every change to keep it accurate.

Built for Everyone
Dark mode and a colorblind-friendly palette come standard.

Rivers.run is free, open-source, and built by paddlers for paddlers.

River flows change and conditions can vary rapidly. Always exercise caution, wear appropriate safety gear, and verify local conditions before paddling.

Need help or have feedback? Reach out to [e-mail]

Privacy Policy: https://rivers.run/privacy
Terms of Service: https://rivers.run/terms

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.

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

unfortunately it's been down for a while now with no communication from the app developer. hope they can get it running again but I can't give it more than 2 stars

What’s new

• Custom river lists — build and organize paddling lists by region, difficulty, or trip plan
• New bottom navigation bar for quick access to Map, Search, Lists, and Settings
• Significantly smaller app size — faster downloads and less storage
• Maps and flow graphs load faster and cache more reliably for offline use
• Better flow notification delivery
• Fixed river detail pages loading from shared links
• Data export now includes all your saved rivers