A family out for a Yukon River outing has found the body of a teenage girl who vanished in March and was presumed drowned.

Rebekah Asp's body was spotted at about 10 p.m. Monday.

The family had landed on shore about one kilometre down from a boat launch in the Gypsum Road area in order to explore and collect driftwood.

The 18-year-old's body was spotted six metres from shore in about one metre of calm water.

The family immediately returned to town and called the police, RCMP Cpl. Ken Putnam said this morning. Police accompanied the boat owner in his watercraft to the site.

The coroner attended the scene and it's been ruled an accidental drowning. No autopsy has been ordered and foul play is not suspected.

The recovery cancels the full-scale search the RCMP had scheduled for this Sunday. That search was to include boats as well as Search and Rescue personnel walking the riverbanks and checking islands midstream, said Putnam.

On March 6, the teen had gone for a walk along the river in the Marwell industrial area. When she didn't return, her father, Henry Asp, followed her footprints leading to open water along the river's edge. None led back.

Police said at the time it appeared the girl had slipped.

Since Asp went missing, the RCMP have been out searching several times, said Putnam. He's one of a number of officers who were out looking for six or seven hours last Friday in the RCMP's six-metre speedboat.

The police force had also chartered a helicopter to help out in that search as well, and have been asking small aircraft pilots to keep an eye out when they were in the air.

A week before Friday's search, the RCMP Twin Otter had been used to check the thawing river, and a week before that, officers had taken out the force's Zodiac.