Rapid Creek (Rapid City)

Live conditions for Rapid Creek (Rapid City): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

14cfs→ lowcaution

Low and skinny at 14 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.

Water temp—

Stage1.69 ft

Engine callOFF 15 cfs outside wade band 30–150

Gauge read 7:25 AM CDT · USGS 06412500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Rapid Creek (Rapid City) is a freestone river in South Dakota, fished for trout — brown, brook. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.

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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Rapid Creek Trailhead (Pactola Basin)walk in
Placerville Camp Footbridgebridge
Rapid Creek Canyon Access (Falling Rock Rd)walk in
Canyon Lake Park (Rapid Creek outlet)walk in
Sioux Parkwalk in
Storybook Island Accesswalk in
Founders Parkwalk in
Jackson Parkwalk in

Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.

The briefing

Know before you drive to Rapid Creek.

Every morning OUTFISH reads this gauge, the dam schedule, the water temperature, the sky and the tips library, and writes one plain-language call for the waters you track: go or stay home, wade or float, when to be on the water, where to put in, what to tie on — with directions.

Start free — 7 days of Guide

Signed in: the wade and float bands, the full hatch calendar, safety notes, the 14-day trend, shop reports and today's briefing for this water.

This month

Active in October:

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The full calendar by month, with notes, is on the signed-in river page.

Verify it yourself

The same sources the engine reads, straight from the agency:

USGS gauge ↗

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