National River Database

Most of the options described here are only enabled if you are logged in. For more details on how to log in, see the accompanying link.

The river list selection page looks gives an overview of real-time information that we can track on a state-by-state basis. We track information for the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. Other territories are available at user request. For volunteer information on expanding our Whitewater database click here.

River information is maintained by her stream team editors. These are volunteers who provide river descriptions, gauge information, directions, safety information, and the other information that you see on our website. We give our stream team editors credit in the river descriptions and also by recognizing recent edits to river pages. By choosing the edits option or the top 100 edits at the top of the page you can see who has been recently working on streams to get an idea of what has been updated recently.

The option for reports shows the last 100 manual gauge and stream level reports have been filed with American Whitewater by filing date. You can pull up reports by state or by choosing the top 100 reports at the top of the river selection page.

States can be broken down by a list of rivers, or by drainages. The advantage of drainages is that rivers are grouped logically based on what valleys they fallen, whereas the advantage of seeing the entire summary pages that you can sort the river list for the entire state by name, level, relative level (running or not), and the presence of upcoming events.