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About the Clackamas Water Trail

Supporting Low Impact Recreation

The Clackamas Water Trail encompasses the Clackamas river from Sandstone Bridge to confluence with the Willamette River, and offers an array of river recreation activities, protected habitats, and drinking water for over 300,000 people in the Portland metro area. 

Clackamas Water Trail map - designed for signage at launches and other access points on the river.
Clackamas Water Trail map – designed for signage at launches and other access points on the river.

River Conditions

RP2PL_July 18_Drinking Water Rapids

Oregon City Gauge (USGS)

  • Temperature: 38.12° F
  • Streamflow: 1630 ft³/s
  • Gage height: 24.23 ft
Oregon City, OR
37°
Fog
7:33 am4:29 pm PST
Feels like: 34°F
Wind: 5mph N
Humidity: 78%
Pressure: 30.36"Hg
UV index: 0

LAND & WATER ACKNOWLEGEMENT CLACKAMAS PEOPLE

From time immemorial, the Chinookan tribes, referred to as the Clackamas People, have called this area home, and are still strongly connected to the river today. The Clackamas People caught year-round runs of salmon, steelhead, pacific lamprey, and built canoes and plankhouses from the wood of western red cedar trees that are found in the watershed. (language taken from CRBC 2015 Interpretative signs)

We PADDLE in it. We FISH in it. We PLAY in it. And sometimes… We just sit and LOOK at it. 

I Drink the Clack

When you visit and enjoy the Clackamas River, please remember that it supplies drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people. By preserving the Clackamas River as a high quality drinking water source we can help minimize future drinking water treatment costs, while Masterarbeit schreiben lassen being good stewards of the river.  Sustaining this precious resource is one of our top priorities. 

The River is My Home

Fish Drawing