Salmon River (Idaho) plans are under legal challenge. The United States Geological Survey operates four stream gauge water level monitoring stations on the main stem of the Salmon River and 17 others on its tributaries. Real time data is available for each station on the USGS website. For a map of these see or in the box at right. 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
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