Glenwood Springs

7/30/2015

Glenwood Springs Overview

Glenwood Springs offers a river wide wave on the Colorado River.

Between 2,000 and 4,000 cfs river right offers fairly easy and gentle wave boating, good for all levels of boaters. It’s too flushy for kayaking above 4,000. Steve Franklin tells us, "The boat chute wave at Glenwood, river right, returned to its bigger wall (good spinning plus) @ 2730 CFS and got better @2800 + while 1 week ago @2300 it got real flushy and flat."

River left offers marginal or good hole boating below 4,000+-???? cfs. Above 4,000 it turns into a wave which is small at 4,000 and becomes massive as levels rise. As levels change, some characteristics change. Above 8,000 you may miss the eddy and have to take an annoying five minute walk back to the wave. Above approximately 10,000+- it’s impossible to catch the wave from the eddy and each ride requires at least a short one minute walk upstream. At 15,000 the wave is big, but surgy. At 24,000 the wave becomes world class.

Glenwood levels seem touchy. When we've been there it will rise 500 cfs and it will get better, but when it rises another 500 cfs it will get worse.

Glenwood offers webcams of each side of the river, so you can see it’s current condition before you go.

Glenwood Springs is very popular with kayakers. We hope somebody will contribute some video and more specific info at different levels.

Click here to see the current condition of Glenwood on a webcam.

And click here for a zoomed webcam of the other side of the river.

Click here for the Glenwood gauge.

Click here for a map and directions to the Glenwood park.

2 Comments

Tim

8/1/2015 02:30:50 am

Please offer comments about Glenwood.

stephen franklin

9/12/2015 10:08:26 am

Just returned from Glenwood via Montrose for Labor Day weekend, 2015. The boat chute wave at Glenwood, river right, returned to its bigger wall (good spinning plus) @ 2730 CFS and got better @2800 + while 1 week ago @2300 it got real flushy and flat. Locals say the playpark was altered over last winter to divert more flow into the feature on river left; it looked real good for loops and cartwheels from at least 2300 to 2800 CFS. However, the boat chute side suffers from the decrease of water made by the change.

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