About this river
Tower Creek is a 2.6 mile stream near Yellowstone Raft Company in Montana. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Lamar River nr Tower Ranger Station YNP (site 06188000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1923 to 2026
Tower Creek typically runs highest in June, at a median 3,960 cfs, and lowest in January, at 100 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 23,800 cfs, in 2022.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 100 | 90 to 120 | |
| February | 100 | 90 to 120 | |
| March | 110 | 95 to 138 | |
| April | 270 | 191 to 664 | |
| May | 2,870 | 1,560 to 3,950 | |
| June | 3,960 | 2,920 to 5,505 | |
| July | 978 | 621 to 1,470 | |
| August | 272 | 220 to 360 | |
| September | 193 | 156 to 256 | |
| October | 183 | 148 to 254 | |
| November | 149 | 120 to 183 | |
| December | 120 | 100 to 140 |
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 84 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Lamar River nr Tower Ranger Station YNP (site 06188000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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