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Looking downstream (north); the bridge is where US 95 crosses. Rome, Oregon, which consists of little more than a gas station, is off the pic to the left. We're at the put-in point for raft trips on the Lower Owyhee. The river enters a spectacular desert canyon at those bluffs ahead. Commercial trips are run in April-May, spring runoff permitting. One of these days-- The Owyhee rises, improbably, in extreme northern Nevada and flows northward to the Snake, joining it just above Nyssa, Idaho. Via a convoluted set of historical circumstances, the name "Owyhee" actually comes from Hawaii (!)..