Selway River

The Selway River is located in north central Idaho in the northwestern United States within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. It is a tributary of the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River in the Clearwater National Forest. The Selway was one of the rivers included by the United States Congress in 1968 as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

The main stem of the Selway is 100 miles (160 km) in length[1] from the headwaters in the Bitterroots to the confluence with the Lochsa near Lowell to form the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River. The drainage basin for the river system comprises 106,977 acres (432.92 km2) in Idaho County. The river is fed by melting snow out of the mountains of Idaho.

Selway River (Idaho)

Selway River Canyon in Idaho

Courtesy of Idaho Travel Council

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Communities

Flora

Wildlife

Recreation

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 3, 2011

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