Blue River - Lower Blue (Green Mountain to Spring Creek)

Find Green Mountain Reservoir off of Highway 9.  Make your way to the dam/causeway and take a small access road on the far side down to the river.  Put in here.

From the put in continue north on Highway 9 for 2-3 miles and turn left (west) onto Spring Creek Road.  Follow this to where it crosses the Blue.  Take out on river left.  River right is private property.

NOTE: This is a sensitive access point, please be courteous. Grand County officials are not kayak friendly, nor are the ranchers whose easement this is. Please have your fun at the put in instead. Rafts are not allowed to use this access, strictly kayaks as posted. 

The first class III action of this run and lost likely to trip up beginners. 

Every run has one. Decent front suf but rarely enough water for vertical moves. Great eddy service, so good for beginner boaters learning to surf. 

Know it by the approaching cliff wall river left. At higher flows swims can be longer here, since below the wall there is some fast moving boogie water. Stay left for easy, stay right for harder. The most fun rapid on this run. 

Two diveson dams exist on this run. They can generally be run anywhere that suits you and good eddies exist directly above for boat scouting. Though these can be intimidating for beginners they rarely result in carnage. Easily portaged river right.

Boat scout on river right, directly above pour over.