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Spend a full day traveling the Columbia River Gorge: guided White Salmon River rafting, a riverside picnic, a visit to Multnomah Falls, and a soak at Carson Hot Springs. This active day trip combines adrenaline, scenery, and local conservation history with hotel pickup from Portland.
Spend a full day traveling the Columbia River Gorge: guided White Salmon River rafting, a riverside picnic, a visit to Multnomah Falls, and a soak at Carson Hot Springs. This active day trip combines adrenaline, scenery, and local conservation history with hotel pickup from Portland.
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Operated by PDX Rafting · Portland, Oregon
Mist from a 620-foot cascade cools the air as a motorcoach pulls away and the river’s pulse steps up beneath a paddle. The full-day tour threads the Columbia River Gorge — a corridor of wind-sculpted basalt and forested ridgelines — with a guided White Salmon River rafting run, a picnic on the bank, a stop beneath Multnomah Falls, and a soak at Carson Hot Springs.
moderate.
8–9 hours.
Suitable for people with moderate fitness: able to paddle for short bursts, board and exit a raft, and walk short paved trails.
No. Guides provide instruction and all necessary safety equipment; basic fitness is recommended for paddling and brief swims if necessary.
Age and weight restrictions vary by operator; expect minimum age rules and policies for pregnant guests or those with serious back/heart conditions.
The itinerary includes about one hour at the hot springs, enough for a short soak and a cold plunge if you wish.
Yes—Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery offers interpretive displays and viewing windows where you can observe juvenile Chinook and learn about restoration work.
The Columbia River Gorge has long been a travel and fishing corridor for Chinookan peoples; later it became a strategic route for explorers and settlers shaped by basalt flows and Ice Age floods.
Flows, hatcheries, and restoration projects address dam impacts and declining salmon runs; visitors are asked to stay on trails and respect hatchery rules to protect spawning habitat.
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