Rock Creek

1. Upper Rock Creek

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DifficultyIV
Length2.6 mi
Avg Gradientn/a
GaugeLake Fork River Ab Moon Lake, Nr Mountain Home, Ut
Flow Rate as of 21 minutes
148 cfsbelow recommended
Reach Info Last UpdatedJune 14, 2018

River Description

Scott England explored this run via packraft in June 2018, which is a good choice of craft considering it is a 1.9 mile hike from the Rock Creek trailhead to the end of Upper Stillwater Reservoir, 3.5 miles to the East Fork confluence, and another mile to a suggested putin one mile upstream of the East fork confluence (4.5 miles one way). Wood portages are more common above there.

Scott shared:

I made a very nice descent down Upper Rock Creek at 300 cfs in the High Uinta Wilderness. 6 miles total, 7 wood portages up top, but the bottom 3 or 4 miles were super high quality, with relatively few wood issues. The crux of this run is a mile long stretch of steep class IV enclosed in a box canyon. This would be all class V at twice the flow that I ran it at. I would recommend putting in a mile above the confluence of East Fork of Rock Creek and boating down to the reservoir. This stretch has as high a quality of whitewater as you can find in Utah, and it is a great wilderness adventure.

Its a pretty steep run, roughly 200 feet per mile, 300 feet per mile crux, with some horizon line scouting, but no falls.


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Jun 13, 2018


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