Salmon River (Idaho) Salmon River (Idaho) The Salmon River is located in Idaho in the northwestern United States. The Salmon is also known as "The River of No Return". It flows for through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of and dropping more than between its headwaters, near Galena Summit above the Sawtooth Valley in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, and its confluence with the Snake River. Measured at White Bird, its average discharge is per second. It is one of the largest rivers in the continental United States without a single dam on its mainstem. Cities located along the Salmon
Salmon River (Idaho) Sawtooth Range at over in elevation, several miles northwest of Norton Peak. For the first , it flows north through the Sawtooth Valley, then turns east at Stanley, receiving the Yankee Fork shortly below that point and the East Fork further downstream. The river then flows northeast, receiving the Pahsimeroi River at Ellis and then the Lemhi River at Salmon, Idaho east of the Lemhi Range. North of Salmon, the river is joined by the North Fork, before turning west into over of continuous canyons through the Salmon River and Clearwater Mountains – some of the most rugged and isolated