OUR TOURS
Kiwi Air is pleased to offer a variety of flight seeing tours over, in, through, and around the Hells Canyon Recreation Area. Rugged canyons, rolling hills, clear rivers, and timbered wilderness are all are within a bird's eye view from a helicopter. Everyone gets a guaranteed window seat on these private tours. All prices listed include up to 3 persons/passengers. With plenty of geology, biology, ecology, and history, there is something for everyone. While you are free to create your own adventurous route, here are a few of our more popular tours for you to consider:
Gateway Hells Canyon + Joseph Creek
Approx. 45 min
Spectacular Pilot's Recommendation!
Travel back in time to see the gateway of North America's deepest river canyon. With a high probability of seeing wildlife, such as bighorn sheep, deer, elk, coyotes and more, this is a great tour for wildlife enthusiasts. Joseph Creek is literally a meandering oasis that endlessly winds its way around mini buttes and plateaus and vertical ridges at the base of an otherwise baron canyon of layer upon layer of eroded basalt. When the light is just right, the canyon seems to continuously unfold and open up before your eyes. Chief Joseph (the Elder) of the Nez Perce was born at the northern end of this sacred canyon. This canyon is full of surprises and never disappoints — a pilot favorite.
3 passengers included
Local (Lewiston-Clarkston)
Approx. 15 min
See the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers from above and get a bird’s eye view of the twin cities, Swallows Nest Rock, and maybe even your home (if you are a local). A great flight to introduce young ones to the joys of flying via helicopter.
3 passengers included
Local Plus — Waha Lake!
Approx. 20 min
For those who want to go a little beyond the borders of downtown Lewiston and Clarkston and get a feel for how the topography of the region was formed from layers of basalt (lava rock) and then eroded away by flows and floods at the end of the last ice age. Everything is not what it first appears to be... rock cliffs are home to big horn sheep and tops of mountains are actually fields of fertile farmland, and a gradual climb to the southeast... Waha Lake!
3 passengers included
Grande Ronde
Approx. 30 min
A taste of our most popular tour that is easily upgradable in flight! Fly south along Snake River to Heller Bar and the confluence of the Grande Ronde and you will quickly discover some of the beauty the area has to offer. Long before homesteaders, prospectors, trappers, and traders came seeking their fortune, the Nez Perce (Ni Mi’i Puu) were the land’s true caretakers, and the salmon and sturgeon ruled the wild and free-flowing waters. As we head upstream, one begins to get a sense of the beauty and ruggedness that becomes Hells Canyon. This is one of our more popular tours.
3 passengers included
Cougars and Vandals up on the Palouse
Approx. 30 min
Head north out of the Lewis-Clark Valley and over some of the most beautiful rolling hills and fertile dry farmland in the country, the Palouse. Interspersed with hidden canyonettes with picture painting like shadows. The Palouse is truly a natural wonder to behold. We will check out two of the better known university campuses in the area — Washington State University in Pullman and University of Idaho in Moscow — home to the Cougars and Vandals before returning to the Snake River.
3 passengers included
Imnaha River Canyon
Approx. 60 min
Recommended Historical Canyon!
It is upstream (south) of the Grand Ronde that the “River of the Snake People” becomes even more rugged and remote. Steep, rocky, river banks give you the sensation that you are now entering the outer boundaries of North America’s deepest gorge. And as the scenery becomes more incredible, so do the stories of adventure, discovery, survival, and heart break—from the town of Eureka to the Nez Perce crossing at Dug’s Bar to Chinese prospectors digging through a mountain. And the Imnaha Canyon is breathtakingly beautiful. With its rushing currents, steep walls, and narrow passage, you will feel like you had better keep your hands inside the helicopter. When you get a view from above, you will ask yourself “How did we fly through there?” Great history, stunning scenery, a "Wow!" factor of ten out of ten.
3 passengers included
Palouse Falls
Approx. 75 min
Fly westward and downstream along the Snake River past Lower Granite and Little Goose Dams to the Palouse River, which we then follow upstream through a picturesque canyon until greeted suddenly by the Palouse Falls. Buttes, plateaus, a razor ridge line, and a spectacular 198 foot waterfall. What is not to like? Best viewed in spring and early summer when water flow is high.
3 passengers included
Dworshak Dam and Reservoir
Approx. 75 min
From the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers, fly east along what the Nez Perce call “the clearer of the two” rivers. A scenic journey through a history filled area takes you toward Orofino and what is the 3rd highest dam in the United States and the highest straight-axis concrete dam in the western hemisphere. The reservoir behind the Dworshak Dam stretches 54 miles upstream and has become a recreation haven. Seventeen miles up the former North Fork of the Clearwater River, we will fly over beautiful Dent Bridge, a 1,550 foot long suspension bridge over the reservoir.
3 passengers included
Create Your Own Tour
You decide how long
Do you have something you want to see from the air — your farm, your home, the destination of your next fishing or adventure trip, wildlife, wilderness, unique rock formations, or a combination there of? We will help you customize a flight to your liking and provide a first-class experience you will always remember. Prices are based on Hobb's meter (or actual flight time).
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1288 Port Way
Clarkston WA 99403
Our helipad/hangar is conveniently located in the
Lewis Clark Valley at the Port of Clarkston.
