We built River Flow Co to make river data make sense.
Every river has a personality. Some wander. Some charge. Some look perfectly innocent right up until they aren't.
Our mission is to help more people understand the water before they step into it.
River Flow Co brings together live river conditions, trusted data, and practical river knowledge into one place that's actually enjoyable to explore. We turn stream gauges, flow rates, water temperatures, and decades of scattered information into something you can understand at a glance.
Because rivers don't read calendars, care about your vacation days, or know you drove four hours to get there.
The river writes the story.
We're just here to help you read it.
Multiple networks of streamgages feed the live numbers you see across the site.
The U.S. Geological Survey operates thousands of streamgages nationwide. We read discharge, gauge height, and water temperature directly from the USGS Instantaneous Values API.
ColoradoSome Colorado rivers also report through the Colorado Division of Water Resources telemetry network. Those requests are proxied through our servers to keep things fast and avoid browser CORS restrictions.
A few of the ways River Flow Co helps you plan a day on the water.
CFS, gauge height, and water temperature pulled straight from USGS and state telemetry networks, updated throughout the day.
Editorial guides to the rivers that define each state: history, geography, and where to put in.
ReferenceWhat CFS means, how gauge height works, and other river-reading basics explained in plain language.
Every station shows whether it's running high, low, or steady against its typical flow, and whether it's rising or falling right now.