Recommended
Paddling sites worth reading
The official paddling sources we check ourselves, kept short on purpose. A person picks every entry and writes it up.
Official sources
Agencies, regulators and the organizations that publish the rules and the data. We use these ourselves. None of them asked to be listed and none of them link back to us.
American Whitewater River Index
americanwhitewater.org
Run descriptions, gradient, rapids and live gauge readings with the levels each run is good at, maintained by paddlers. The access notes are the part that is genuinely hard to find anywhere else.
Coast Guard Boating Safety
uscgboating.org
Required equipment, registration, accident reporting, and the free vessel safety check a volunteer examiner will run at the ramp. Also where recalls and safety alerts for boats and engines get published.
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
fws.gov
The rivers Congress has protected, why each one qualified, and who manages it. A practical way to find a stretch that will still look the way it does now in twenty years.
USGS National Water Dashboard
dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov
Live streamflow, gauge height and water temperature from every USGS gauge in the country, on one map. This is the same data behind our river conditions, read straight from the source, and it is the first thing worth checking before you drive anywhere.
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We read everything that comes in. Independent sites about paddling only, and a person writes the description, so there is no need to send us one.
Add your siteWe link to these sites because we think they are useful. None of them paid for a place here, and nobody can buy one. If a site stops being worth reading, it comes off this page.
