Americas Oldest Whitewater Festival

America's Oldest Whitewater Festival focuses on whitewater boat races and paddlers from around the nation and world come to compete. The town is consumed with FIBArk. Every person who lives in Salida is involved as a merchant, a volunteer, or a spectator and people who come from out of town fill Salida to the brim to witness one of the premier boat races in North America.

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This event showcases products like Whitewater hellThe meanest stretch of whitewater in the world The longest, oldest, most prestigious and perhaps the toughest race in North America” – many such expressions have been coined to describe the 25.7 mile river course over which one of the nation’s most unique races is held each June in Salida.