History

Indian Creek Guard Station & Airstrip

River mile ~25.56 — GoRafting Indian Creek Airstrip/Guard Station Camp ~25.56; airstrip also in landing-strips.json as S81

Mapped at 44.7572, -115.1136.

Indian Creek (~mile 25.6) is the standard alternate put-in when Boundary Creek is too low, with a USFS guard station, public airstrip (FAA S81), and multi-group camp. The riverside bar was occupied by the Watson family around 1914; the Forest Service surveyed an administrative site in 1935, approved a plat in 1936, and built/extended the airstrip soon after (further lengthened in 1952–53). It remains a key patrol, fire, and public-access hub on the Middle Fork.