Although it doesn't look very pretty at the beginning, this trip gets better as you go into it. At the put-in, be ready for a 300-yard carry down on a trail to a sandbar. At the beginning of your adventure, it is not nature scenery. It gets better as you go along. You may hear diesel motors driving irrigation pumps and there is a gravel operation visible from the river. Downstream you will see prairies with grassland and wooded hill and bluffs. Be watchful, the bottom does get rocky with pink quartzite rocks pocking from a clay cliff. The take out is right after a small island. Beginners stay to the left of the island, just pass it is a dam.