Spot report
🇺🇸Arkansas River (Browns Canyon, Numbers, Royal Gorge), Colorado
updated 05:30 local · open-meteo
🌀 Whitewater· class III-IV river corridor · base: Buena Vista
The most commercially rafted river in the US, with Browns Canyon National Monument, The Numbers and Royal Gorge all within an hour of Buena Vista and Salida.
Heads up · Altitude (8,000 ft) and cold snowmelt in June
Wind
20 km/h
gusts 28 · from S
Water
flat
inland — lakes and rivers
Road
dry
dry — 8 °C
Daylight
07:12 → 18:27
8 °C air · 0.0 mm · UV 0
What's rideable right now
Wind
Water
Mountain
River
⛵
Sailing
RIDEABLE20 km/h — easy sailing
Best windows this week
- Wed 7am–6pmFIRING
36 km/h — a proper breeze · 12 h
- Thu 10am–6pmFIRING
27 km/h — a proper breeze · 9 h
- Sun 4pm–6pmFIRING
22 km/h — a proper breeze · 3 h
This week
Today
36 km/h
2–11 °C · 7 mm
⛵Sailing
Thu
27 km/h
0–10 °C
⛵Sailing
Fri
9 km/h
0–12 °C
🏄SUP
Sat
13 km/h
2–19 °C
🏄SUP
Sun
22 km/h
4–18 °C
⛵Sailing
Mon
12 km/h
3–18 °C
🏄SUP
Tue
12 km/h
3–15 °C
🏄SUP
bars: daily max wind · best sport each day
Pack list
- No water temp inland → judge by air — 8 °C. Lakes run colder than they look.
- 20 km/h → 10–12 m kite, big board
- UV 0 — low → no sun worries today
- 8 °C → softshell over a mid-layer
- Daylight 07:12–18:27 → golden hour from 17:27
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