Washington Rivers and Streams
207 Washington rivers and creeks with WDFW access sites, salmon and steelhead runs, Special Rules by reach and live USGS flow.
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- Abernethy Creekstream
- American Riversalmon and steelhead
- Asotin Creekstream
B
- Baker Riversalmon and steelhead
- Bear Riversalmon and steelhead
- Beaver Creekstream
- Big Quilcene Riversalmon and steelhead
- Big Riversalmon and steelhead
- Black Riversalmon and steelhead
- Bogachiel Riversalmon and steelhead
- Boulder Riversalmon and steelhead
- Bumping Riversalmon and steelhead
C
- Calawah Riversalmon and steelhead
- Canyon Creekstream
- Canyon Riversalmon and steelhead
- Carbon Riversalmon and steelhead
- Cascade Riversalmon and steelhead
- Cedar Creekstream
- Chehalis Riversalmon and steelhead
- Chelan Riversalmon and steelhead
- Chewuch Riversalmon and steelhead
- Chinook Riversalmon and steelhead
- Chiwawa Riversalmon and steelhead
- Cispus Riverriver
- Clallam Riversalmon and steelhead
- Cle Elum Riversalmon and steelhead
- Clear Fork Cowlitz Riverriver
- Clearwater River (Jefferson County)salmon and steelhead
- Clearwater River (Pierce County)salmon and steelhead
- Columbia Riversalmon and steelhead
- Colville Riversalmon and steelhead
- Cooper Riversalmon and steelhead
- Copalis Riversalmon and steelhead
- Coweeman Riversalmon and steelhead
- Cowlitz Riversalmon and steelhead
- Crab Creekstream
D
- Decker Creekstream
- Deep Riversalmon and steelhead
- Deschutes Riversalmon and steelhead
- Dewatto Riversalmon and steelhead
- Dickey Riversalmon and steelhead
- Dosewallips Riversalmon and steelhead
- Duckabush Riversalmon and steelhead
- Dungeness Riversalmon and steelhead
- Duwamish Riversalmon and steelhead
E
- East Fork Grays Riversalmon and steelhead
- East Fork Hoquiam Riversalmon and steelhead
- East Fork Humptulips Riversalmon and steelhead
- East Fork Lewis Riversalmon and steelhead
- East Twin Riversalmon and steelhead
- Elk Riversalmon and steelhead
- Elochoman Riversalmon and steelhead
- Elwha Riversalmon and steelhead
- Entiat Riversalmon and steelhead
G
- Grande Ronde Riversalmon and steelhead
- Gray Wolf Riversalmon and steelhead
- Grays Riversalmon and steelhead
- Green River (Cowlitz County)salmon and steelhead
- Green River (King County)salmon and steelhead
- Greenwater Riversalmon and steelhead
H
- Hamma Hamma Riversalmon and steelhead
- Hoh Riversalmon and steelhead
- Hoko Riversalmon and steelhead
- Humptulips Riversalmon and steelhead
I
- Icicle Creekstream
J
- Johns Riversalmon and steelhead
K
- Kachess Riversalmon and steelhead
- Kalama Riversalmon and steelhead
- Kettle Riverriver
- Klickitat Riversalmon and steelhead
L
- Lewis Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Hoko Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Klickitat Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Naches Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Pend Oreille Riverriver
- Little Quilcene Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Spokane Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Washougal Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little Wenatchee Riversalmon and steelhead
- Little White Salmon Riversalmon and steelhead
- Lost Riversalmon and steelhead
- Lower Crab Creekstream
- Lyre Riversalmon and steelhead
M
- Mad Riversalmon and steelhead
- Mashel Riversalmon and steelhead
- Methow Riversalmon and steelhead
- Middle Fork Newaukum Riversalmon and steelhead
- Middle Fork Nooksack Riversalmon and steelhead
- Middle Fork Satsop Riversalmon and steelhead
- Middle Fork Snoqualmie Riverriver
- Middle Nemah Riversalmon and steelhead
- Mill Creekstream
- Moclips Riversalmon and steelhead
- Muddy Fork Cowlitz Riverriver
- Muddy Riverriver
N
- Naches Riversalmon and steelhead
- Naneum Creekstream
- Napeequa Riversalmon and steelhead
- Naselle Riversalmon and steelhead
- Newaukum Riversalmon and steelhead
- Niawiakum Riversalmon and steelhead
- Nisqually Riversalmon and steelhead
- Nooksack Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Calawah Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Cispus Riverriver
- North Fork Newaukum Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Nooksack Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Skagit Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Skokomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Skykomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Snoqualmie Riverriver
- North Fork Stillaguamish Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Teanaway Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Tieton Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Tolt Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Toutle Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Fork Twisp Riverriver
- North Nemah Riversalmon and steelhead
- North Riversalmon and steelhead
O
- Okanogan Riversalmon and steelhead
- Olequa Creekstream
P
- Palouse Riversalmon and steelhead
- Pend Oreille Riverriver
- Pilchuck Riversalmon and steelhead
- Puyallup Riversalmon and steelhead
- Pysht Riversalmon and steelhead
Q
- Queets Riversalmon and steelhead
- Quillayute Riversalmon and steelhead
- Quinault Riversalmon and steelhead
R
- Raging Riversalmon and steelhead
- Rex Riverriver
- Rocky Creekstream
S
- Salmon Riversalmon and steelhead
- Samish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Sammamish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Sanpoil Riversalmon and steelhead
- Satsop Riversalmon and steelhead
- Sauk Riversalmon and steelhead
- Segelsen Creekstream
- Sekiu Riversalmon and steelhead
- Similkameen River (Okanogan County)salmon and steelhead
- Similkameen River (Whatcom County)salmon and steelhead
- Sitkum Riversalmon and steelhead
- Skagit Riversalmon and steelhead
- Skokomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Skookumchuck Riversalmon and steelhead
- Skykomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Snahapish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Snake Riversalmon and steelhead
- Snohomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Snoqualmie Riversalmon and steelhead
- Sol Duc Riversalmon and steelhead
- Solleks Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Calawah Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Chehalis Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Grays Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Hoh Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Newaukum Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Nooksack Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Sauk Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Skagit Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Skokomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Skykomish Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Snoqualmie Riverriver
- South Fork Stillaguamish Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Sultan Riverriver
- South Fork Tieton Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Tolt Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Toutle Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Fork Willapa Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Naselle Riversalmon and steelhead
- South Nemah Riversalmon and steelhead
- Spokane Riversalmon and steelhead
- Stehekin Riversalmon and steelhead
- Stillaguamish Riversalmon and steelhead
- Suiattle Riversalmon and steelhead
- Sultan Riversalmon and steelhead
T
- Tahuya Riversalmon and steelhead
- Teanaway Riversalmon and steelhead
- Tieton Riversalmon and steelhead
- Tilton Riverriver
- Tolt Riversalmon and steelhead
- Touchet Riversalmon and steelhead
- Toutle Riversalmon and steelhead
- Tsoo-Yess Riversalmon and steelhead
- Tucannon Riversalmon and steelhead
- Twisp Riversalmon and steelhead
U
- Union Riversalmon and steelhead
W
- Walla Walla Riversalmon and steelhead
- Wallace Riversalmon and steelhead
- Washougal Riversalmon and steelhead
- Wenatchee Riversalmon and steelhead
- West Fork Grays Riversalmon and steelhead
- West Fork Humptulips Riversalmon and steelhead
- West Fork Satsop Riversalmon and steelhead
- West Fork Washougal Riversalmon and steelhead
- West Prong Little Walla Walla Riversalmon and steelhead
- West Twin Riversalmon and steelhead
- White Chuck Riversalmon and steelhead
- White River (Chelan County)salmon and steelhead
- White River (Pierce County)salmon and steelhead
- White Salmon Riversalmon and steelhead
- Willapa Riversalmon and steelhead
- Wind Riversalmon and steelhead
- Wishkah Riversalmon and steelhead
- Wynoochee Riversalmon and steelhead
Y
- Yakima Riversalmon and steelhead
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Lakes and shoreline shown for Washington Rivers and Streams
Photo: Jonathan Miske, CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region, Public domain
Photo: Richard Probst – Shot in a Frame, CC BY 2.0
Photo: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, CC BY 2.0
Answers
Using the Washington rivers index
How many Washington rivers and creeks have a page?
207; 178 carry salmon or steelhead runs in the WDFW SWIFD layer and 101 have a live USGS gauge.
What are Special Rules?
Reach-by-reach seasons, limits and gear rules printed for a named river in the WDFW pamphlet; 190 of these rivers have them.
Do the flow numbers update on their own?
Yes; each USGS gauge on a river page pulls its latest reading during the day.
Are the Columbia and Snake on this list?
Yes, with their Washington length; the dammed pools of both rivers have lake pages of their own.
Which river forms part of the Oregon line?
The Columbia; its page carries the shared-boundary license rule from the pamphlet.
Why is a creek missing?
A stream needs a WDFW access site, a USGS gauge or pamphlet Special Rules before it gets a page.
Where do river lengths come from?
USGS National Hydrography Dataset main-channel length clipped to the Washington line.
Which fish data do the river pages use?
WDFW SWIFD distribution records by species and run, plus the WDFW record list.
Elsewhere on the site
WDFW rules, records and directories that go with the Washington rivers index
- All Washington waters, A to Zlakes, marine water, rivers, counties, towns and fish
- Washington licenses and rulesfees, endorsements, catch record cards, the freshwater table
- Marine area rulessalmon and bottomfish by marine area, 1 through 13
- Special Rules by waterevery lake and river with rules of its own
- Columbia River rulesthe Oregon line, CRC areas and the CRSSE
- Free Fishing Weekendtwo June days without a license for most fish
- WDFW state recordsthe heaviest fish of each species, fresh and salt
- Trout plantsrainbows, cutthroat, browns and tigers planted in 2026
- Water levelsUSGS gauges, Corps forebays and NOAA tide stations
- Marine waterPuget Sound, the Strait, Hood Canal and the outer coast
- High lakesWDFW mountain lakes in the Cascades and Olympics
- Boat rampsWDFW and State Parks launches by county
- Shore fishing and piersdocks, piers and bank sites
- Tackle shopsbait counters, fly shops and marinas by WDFW region
- Guides and charterscharter boats and river guides by county
- Tournamentsbass, walleye and salmon derby dates and winners
- Protected speciesyelloweye, green sturgeon, sixgill and the rest