Roaring River is a tributary of
Crabtree Creek in
Linn County in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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. It begins in the western foothills of the
Cascade Range near Snow Peak. From there it flows generally west to meet Crabtree Creek at Larwood Wayside Park, north of
Lacomb, about upstream of where the creek meets the
South Santiam River
The South Santiam River is a tributary of the Santiam River, about long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Cascade Range into the Willamette Valley east of Corvallis.
It rises in the Cascades in southeastern Linn ...
east of
Albany. The only named tributary of Roaring River is Milky Fork, which enters from the left near Roaring River Park.
[ The map includes mile markers along Crabtree Creek.]
Recreation
Larwood Wayside Park lies at the confluence of Roaring River with Crabtree Creek.
Covering , it has picnic tables, river views, a footbridge, a waterwheel that formerly powered a mill at the site, as well as places to fish and swim. ''Ripley's Believe It or Not'' once listed the confluence as the only one in the world where a stream named "river" emptied into a stream named "creek".
Further upstream, Roaring River County Park is a park along Fish Hatchery Drive east of
Crabtree. Amenities include group picnic shelters, hiking trails, and a fishing pond. Fishing for wild
cutthroat trout in the creek is permitted on a
catch-and-release
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basis.
Fishing in the park pond is recommended "for youngsters only."
Roaring River Fish Hatchery, established in 1924, raises
rainbow trout and summer and winter steelhead (an
anadromous form of rainbow trout). Open to the public, the hatchery has interpretive signs near the hatchery ponds.
See also
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List of rivers of Oregon
This is a partial listing of rivers in the state of Oregon, United States. This list of Oregon rivers is organized alphabetically and by tributary structure. The list may also include streams known as creeks, brooks, forks, branches and prongs, as ...
References
Rivers of Oregon
Rivers of Linn County, Oregon
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