We had such a nice trip down the river. They really are making great attempts to keep the rivers clean and safe. Everyone going down the river were all respectful and helpful to each other. We started to lose air in our float device part of the way through our trip and luckily someone else brought one and helped us out. Come prepared with life jackets, entry of water, no(obvious) booze, and plenty of snacks to keep you full during your float. It can be a little bit of work, so you will need the energy. Don’t forget your SPF. Not so sure it’s safe for small children to float down, but to just get in and play at the rivers edge is great. They offer bags at every stop to take to keep your garbage in so you aren’t littering our beautiful water. We made an effort to pick up extra trash where we could reach it. The best part is that they offer a shuttle bus back up to your car for $ 5 a head. Once this place gets cleaned up more, I will give it 5 stars.
Don B.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Portland, OR
Carver boat ramp seems like just another simple country river boat launch, but stop by on any average summer weekend day and witness the most awesome collection of helmets, rednecks, river-rats, and other assorted Americana. Carver is the take-out spot for the infamous McIver-Carver and Barton-Carver floats down the Clackamas river. This mostly(seemingly) calm 3 – 5 hour float takes you down the Clackamas amongst beautiful green trees and throngs of beer-drinking teenagers to thirty-somethings. What should otherwise be a fairly off-the-beaten-path float becomes as crowded as your average day at the water-park, but with way more beer and moronity. To be fair, it’s an insanely fun float, and were it not wall-to-wall with people, the water would be decently clean. The surface makes it look like a calm river, but people die on it on just about a weekly basis. That’s not to say that you can’t chill out and have a safe float. A little respect for mother nature goes a long way. But come the end of your float, hop on out by the time you reach the boat launch. That’s presumably where you parked your escape vehicle earlier in the day, it’s where hundreds of drunken post-float kids congregate to decide where they’ll be continuing the party, and it’s the location where I watched a mother cry in agony when she was told that her child had just been sucked under about 50 yards downstream under the bridge(past the boat ramp). It was intense. Not much of anything awesome to say about the park/launch itself, other than that it has bathrooms and if you get there early enough, places to park one of your cars(you’ll need it at the end of the float to go back up and get the car you left upstream at Barton!) Be safe, have fun, and don’t swim downstream under that big-ass bridge! A river this large deserves your respect.
