Rogue River Jetboat Rides
The lower Rogue at Gold Beach and Wedderburn is where the nation's original Jet Boat rides began operation. In 1895 when a mail contact was issued to the Mail Boat Trips to carry the mail by river which started the upriver Rogue River passenger boats operations. Here on the Lower Rogue River, tour boats will skim the Rogue's waters 52 miles up into the Wild and Scenic area going far into the federally protected Wild and Scenic Section. Normally no power boats are allowed in a Federally Designated Wild Section, however motor powered Tour Boats were operating here long before Wild and Scenic protections were put in place. Tour Boat travelers will be treated to Wild River, Wild Lands and abundant Wildlife in a safe and exhilarating whitewater trip upriver. Mail Boat Trips were the first to operate with passengers being taken upriver and back with prop driven boats, Jerry's Rogue Jets was the first to use Hydro Jet Boat technology to allow upriver passenger boat travel in low water periods.
National Wild and Scenic Rivers
"It is here by declared to be the policy of the United Sates that certain selected rivers of the nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstanding remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations."
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
October 2, 1968
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