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Gauge Information

Gauge Description:

Daily Flows

Graph courtesy of dreamflows.com

Check Dreamflows.com for the Kings River at Rogers Crossing upstream of the North Fork. See also the Army Corp Pine Flat hourly report or CDEC: Kings Near Trimmer, both of which show flow below the North Fork Kings, plus other information.

High flows of over 20,000 cfs occur every few years and create awesome wave trains. However the difficulty and seriousness of this section is much greater at such flows. The class is at least 4+ at high flows. On the low end most rafters quit boating around 1,000 cfs, but kayakers can scrape down quite a bit lower.

Check these graphs of Snowpack information for the Sierra. Realtime raingauge and temperature information is available for Cedar Grove and Big Meadows on the South Fork Kings, for Balch Camp and Fence Meadow, on the North Fork Kings

Gauge Information

Name

Range

Difficulty

Updated

Level

KINGS R NR TRIMMER

cdec-KRT

600 - 30000 cfs

III-IV

01h19m

469 cfs (rc= -0.0 )

Range	Water Level	Difficulty	Comment
600 -30000 cfs	barely runnable-high runnable	III-IV	Flow below the North Fork Kings

Kings At Rodgers Crossing

dream-100

600 - 30000 cfs

III-IV

02h19m

~ 298 cfs (rc= -1.5 )

Range	Water Level	Difficulty	Comment
600 -30000 cfs	barely runnable-high runnable	III-IV
600 -1200 cfs	extremely Low-somewhat Low	III-IV	Rafters quit around 1000 to 1200. but kayakers can enjoy technical boating at much lower flows.
1200 -3000 cfs	barely runnable-perfect runnable	III-IV
3000 -8000 cfs	med runnable-a bit pushy runnable	III-IV
8000 -25000 cfs	a bit pushy runnable-high runnable	IV

Report - Reports of Kings 2. Garnet Dike Campground to Kirch Flat Campground 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
	Kings [CA]	Banzai Hole	n/a	Paul Martzen
146d18h21m	@Kings 2. Garnet Dike Campground to Kirch Flat Campground [CA]	Low water September boating	640 cfs	Paul Martzen
5y196d18h18m	Kings [CA]	Rafters in Swimmers Eddie	2150 cfs	Daniel Lundberg
8y256d18h18m	Kings [CA]	Kings River View	n/a	Paul Martzen
8y262d18h18m	Kings [CA]	WildCat-overview	n/a	Paul Martzen
8y262d18h18m	Kings River [CA]	Long View	medium	Paul Martzen