Gauge Information

Gauge Description:

This gauge is located well downstream of the run and especially in early season a considerable amount of the reported flow can be from side creeks downstream of the crux of Giant Gap. By April-June with drier weather most flow reported will be passing through Giant Gap from high elevation snow melt from slopes behind Squaw Valley and Sugar Bowl. Lower flows are still fun in the harder rapids in Giant Gap but make for a long paddle out at the end of the day. Higher flows make Locomotive falls a more serious proposition and lost equipment in the early walled out gorge sections could be a real disaster.

Gauge Information

Name Range Difficulty Updated Level
NF AMERICAN R A NORTH FORK DAM CA
usgs-11427000 500 - 2500 cfs IV-V 00h47m 337 cfs (rc= -0.1 )

RangeWater LevelDifficultyComment
500 -2500 cfs barely runnable-high runnable IV-V

Report - Reports of American, N. Fork 2. Giant Gap: Euchre Bar to Colfax-Iowa Hill Road and related gauges

Reports give the public a chance to report on river conditions throughout the country as well as log the history of a river.

Reports

When River/Gauge Subject Level Reporter
American, N. Fork [CA] A good rapid 650 Kirk Eddlemon
4y326d12h00m NF American [CA] Locomotive Falls 1100 Ian Buckley
4y326d12h00m NF American [CA] Dominator 1100 n/a
7y286d12h00m American, N. Fork [CA] Giant Gap from distance n/a Ian Buckley