#caddoRiver
Norman to Caddo Gap on the Caddo River
The 2021 Spring has been a crazy float season in Arkansas so far. The rain has been even more unpredictable than usual. I’ve cancelled more floats this year than ever due to water being either too high or too low because of the crazy rain. We’ve even had some cold weather all the way into mid-May! This can be frustrating, but it also presents opportunities to float sections of rivers that are rarely floatable. One of those sections I finally got to float this Spring was Norman to Caddo Gap on the Caddo River. I have made countless Caddo floats from Caddo Gap down to Glenwood.. And it’s till my favorite float on the Caddo so far. But I like to float as many different sections of rivers as I can. So when Norman to Caddo Gap on the Caddo River was finally floatable on a day ...
Floating the Caddo River – Caddo Gap to Glenwood
Have you ever experienced something and then afterward wondered why it took you so long to do that? Like, it’s been there under your nose for so long and you just never did it. But once you finally did, you wished you had been doing it all along? Well for me, that experience was floating the Caddo River from Caddo Gap to Glenwood. I had never floated this river until around 2013. What??!!! Crazy, I know. But wow, this a great float! No, you’re not going to see the towering bluffs and mountains you see at the Buffalo. You won’t see the emerald green waters of the Mulberry here. But this is still a great floating river in a beautiful part of the state. What you will see is a clean river with some cool rock formations, fun rapids, and pretty good smallmouth fishing. You̵...
