Rock Creek Rock Creek Trail to TrailheadClass II-V
5 Miles
Avg Gradient 100 fpm
Max Gradient 400 fpm
Rock Creek Canyon
Rock Creek Canyon Photo by Will Reeves Gauge Information
Rock Creek
River DescriptionRock Creek is perhaps one of the largest and longest whitewater creeks that drops out of the Medicine Bow Mountains in Wyoming. The creek boasts some deep gorges with class V whitewater in the hard to access upper section before taming down to a Class II-III river at the bottom. Unfortunately for the average boater Rock Creek is not an easy run to access. There are several put in options. All of them involve some hiking or a lot of hiking. The takeout is at the Rock Creek trailhead. Options for access include hiking your boat up the Rock Creek National Recreation Trail. This option can be grueling but at least you can see everything you are about to run. There is limited camping along the trail so you could make it a two day trip by hiking the boat in on day one and boating back down the second day. The closer you get to the takeout the easier the river gets so this option lets beginner boaters run parts of the creek. Your other option is to hike in on one of the upstream fishing trails in Sand Lake, Deep Lake, or by driving over from Hwy 130 and the upper North Fork of the Little Laramie. Regardless of your choice it will involve some hiking and the higher up you get on the run the narrower it will be and the steeper the creek. You can boat below the trailhead but you will cross into private land and the low gradient and beaver ponds are really not worth it.StreamTeam Status: unverified
Last Updated: 2007-07-08 07:43:46
|
You’ve followed a link to a topic that doesn’t exist yet.
If permissions allow (as a AW Member, you may edit River Wiki, for example) you may create it by using the “Create This Page Button” below by hovering your mouse over the edit wrench.
If you don’t see a wrench, you don’t have permission to edit or edit is turned off.
If you don’t know what you are doing click on the sandbox and instructions link off the create page link.
We have no information on how to interpret the gauge. If you know, please contact the StreamTeam member responsible and describe how to read the gauge to them.
Rock Creek near Arlington [ WY ] |
Current Conditions
Station Graphs |
| Level Legend: | Running | Below Minimum Recommended Flow | Above Maximum Recommended Flow | Unknown |
| State | River Name/Section | Class | Level | Rel. Level | Updated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WY | Douglas Creek— Rob Roy Reservoir to Bobbie Thomson Campground below Keystone | III-V | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | Libby Creek— FS 351 to Hwy 130 | I-III | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | Medicine Bow River — FS 100 to FS 261 | IV | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | Middle Fork Little Laramie— FS 338 to Little Laramie (Hwy 130) | II-IV(V+) | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | North Fork Little Laramie— Hwy 130 to Hwy 130 | IV | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | North French Creek— Along Hwy 130 | III | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | North Mullens Creek— Along FS 500 | II-III | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 | |
| WY | Rock Creek— Rock Creek Rock Creek Trail to Trailhead | II-V | 56 cfs | low | 7/24 13:15 |
| AW Gauge ID: | 2874 |
| USGS Station: | 06632400 |
| HUC: | 10180004 |
| Latitude: | 41.5853 |
| Longitude: | -106.2222 |
| Class: | 1 |
No guide books for this stream. If you know of a book that describes this stream please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run. No Comments
Add a Comment No rapids entered. If you know names, and locations of the rapids please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run. 
River Alert
State News
River Links
(RSS)
(KML)help
(mobile)
River Info (mobile)