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Roaring Fork (Glenwood Springs)

Live conditions for Roaring Fork (Glenwood Springs): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

420cfs→ lowcaution

Low and skinny at 420 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · +1.2% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp53.2°F

Stage1.61 ft

Clarityslight stain 7.3 FNU

Engine callOFF 420 cfs outside wade band 450–1500

Gauge read 7:45 AM CDT · USGS 09085000. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Roaring Fork (Glenwood Springs) is a freestone river in Colorado, fished for trout, whitefish — brown, rainbow. 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.

troutwhitefishbrown troutrainbow trout

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

Access

Bob Terrell State Wildlife Area (Pink Bridge Put-in, Carbondale)ramp
Sam Caudill State Wildlife Area (Westbank/Ironbridge Boat Ramp)ramp
Jackson State Wildlife Areawalk in
27th Street Bridge Accessbridge
Safeway Lot / Grand Avenue Pocket Park Trail Accesswalk in
Veltus Park / 8th Street Bridge Fishing Rampwalk in
Confluence Carry-Down (near Two Rivers Park, Roaring Fork side)carry
Two Rivers Park Boat Ramp (Roaring Fork/Colorado Confluence Take-out)ramp

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Roaring Fork.

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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