Next day went back to the Denali hwy and headed to the Maclaren River district, stopped at the lodge at the bridge and after some lunch asked the bloke working there about the river conditions/height. He said the river was lower than normal for the time period. I have had a bucket list item of going up the Maclaren River trail to its end, last time we were stopped by the west branch of the Maclaren River. Now with another rig coming along we decided to give it a try. I walked across the river and the water was about knee high, though a bit fast flowing. So we decided to cross it and continued down the trail.