This profile was built from public records (Tier A, the business own domain. The water is named in body prose on the cited page in the sentence "Few whitewater rafting trips on earth offer as much continuous, explosive whitewater as Idaho Lochsa River (pronounced Lock-Saw)." and again in "The Lochsa, which means Rough Water in the Nez Perce language, is ferocious and explosive whitewater." The local phone (208) 765-0841 is printed on that page and on the contact page. The town is not stated on the Lochsa page and was taken from the same domain contact page, which gives "ROW Inc., P.O. Box 579, Coeur d Alene, ID 83816" - a post office box, not a street address; the Lochsa trips themselves are stated to begin and end near Syringa, Idaho. The 1979 founding is from the same domain about page. No species are recorded: this is a whitewater operation.), last verified 2026-09-25. It was not provided by this business and does not mean the business endorses GuidedFloats. Bookings open once the guide claims it.
This is the Lochsa taken on its own terms: a free-flowing river shaped entirely by natural snowmelt, pounding from its headwaters in the Bitterroot Mountains to the confluence with the Selway and Clearwater through more than forty major rapids, and graded Class IV to IV+. The trip is sold in one to three day forms and is aimed at intermediate and expert rafters rather than first-timers: a twenty-mile single day, a thirty-mile Super One-Day, or a two to three day run. Craft is a paddle raft with stern-mounted oars for the guide. The season is May and June, with departures listed daily from the twenty-second of May through the fourth of July, and trips begin and end near Syringa. Quoted prices carry an eight per cent land and water access fee on top. The Lochsa was one of the original six rivers protected by Congress in 1968.
Waters
| Water | Discharge | Percentile | Temp | 24h | Guides | Programs |
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| Lochsa RiverIDLOCHSA RIVER NR LOWELL ID | 359 cfs | n/a | n/a | → steady | 2 | none yet |