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
Little Salmon River Little Salmon River The Little Salmon River is a tributary of the Salmon River in the U.S. state of Idaho. The river is some long and drains of land. It rises at in elevation on Blue Bunch Ridge in the Sawtooth Range of south-central Idaho, close to Payette Lake. From there, it flows north, through the broad Meadows Valley past Meadows and New Meadows, where it receives Goose Creek from the right and Mud Creek from the left. The river then enters a canyon, cutting across the western edge of the Salmon River Mountains, forming the boundary between Idaho County