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Tubing & Adventures

Tubing & Adventures

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Tubing & Adventures is a kayak tour operator in Waterloo. They offer tubing and kayaking trips on a 7-mile stretch of the Elkhorn River, which typically takes 2 to 3 hours by kayak or 3.5 to 6 hours by tube. The outfitter provides shuttle service upstream to the drop-off location.

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Kayaking, Sea Kayaking, Guided Tours

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Typical flow by month

1900 to 2026

The water at Tubing & Adventures typically runs highest in June, at a median 1,685 cfs, and lowest in September, at 540 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 107,000 cfs, in 2019.

Typical flow by month at Elkhorn River at Waterloo, Nebr., in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January579400 to 995
February813485 to 1,380
March1,400931 to 2,740
April1,385910 to 2,675
May1,540901 to 2,850
June1,685875 to 3,580
July993544 to 1,970
August648401 to 1,140
September540361 to 1,025
October557401 to 1,160
November675481 to 1,160
December633411 to 1,060

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 101 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Elkhorn River at Waterloo, Nebr. (site 06800500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

Current conditions

79Go/ 100 conditions scoreBest day: Sun, Sep 27 (85)

Streamflow

778 cfs

Normal (65th)

Water level

1.65 ft

Water

67°F

High today

63°F

Wind

10 kt

Gusts 18 kt

Rain chance

2%

Week ahead

Tue63°F2%
Wed67°F4%
Thu62°F59%
Fri67°F73%
Sat79°F72%
Sun82°F14%
Mon83°F34%

Forecast from Open-Meteo global models (NOAA & ECMWF).

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