Paddling the Payette provides a guide to 23 day trips in the Payette River Basin.
Two-sided laminated waterproof maps are available for any of those 23 day trips @ $2.95 each. Each map has two trips on it.
The maps featured in Paddling the Payette are “without a doubt, the best maps I have ever seen for the Payette River,” said Tom Long, owner of Cascade Raft and Kayak and a U.S. Olympic kayak coach.
Whitewater trips:
- 1 - Main Payette, Banks to Beehive Bend and Lower South Fork Staircase Run
- 2 - North Fork Payette Cabarton Section and North Fork Payette Class 5 Section
- 3 - South Fork Canyon Run and Upper South Fork, Bonneville Hot Springs to Kirkham Hot Springs
- 4 - Deadwood River and Lower Deadwood
- 5 - Swirly Canyon and Garden Valley Scenic Tour
Flatwater trips:
- 1 - Horseshoe Bend to Montour Bridge and Montour Bridge to Black Canyon
- 2 - Middle Fork Tie Creek section and Garden Valley scenic float
- 3 - North Fork Sheep Bridge to Hartsell Bridge and City of Cascade to Cabarton
- 4 - Cascade Reservoir and Deadwood Reservoir
- 5 - Black Canyon Dam to Letha and Letha to the City of Payette
- 6 - Upper Payette Lake and North Fork Meanders
- 7 - Payette Lake and Little Payette Lake
You also can download individual paddling trip descriptions and maps from Paddling the Payette by going here.