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San Juan River (Navajo Tailwater)

Live conditions for San Juan River (Navajo Tailwater): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

859cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · -0.9% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp47.8°F
Stage4.71 ft
Engine callGO 867 cfs in the wade band · 50°F
Gauge read 1:15 AM CDT · USGS 09355500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

San Juan River (Navajo Tailwater) is a tailwater below Navajo Dam in Western Tailwaters, fished for trout — rainbow, brown. On dam-controlled water the generation schedule is the whole story: the wade window is the no-generation block, and rising water at the gauge means the pulse is arriving.
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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

  • Navajo Dam Put-In Boat Rampramp
  • Cable Hole (BOR Access)walk in
  • Upper Flats / Beaver Flats Accesswalk in
  • Texas Hole / Kiddie Hole Accesswalk in
  • Lower Flats Accesswalk in
  • Simon Point / Simon Canyon (BLM)walk in
  • Munoz Accesswalk in
  • Crusher Hole Day Use / Boat Rampramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.