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Reading water, packing right, going guided, and the programs worth chasing.

Cahaba River

Waterway

The longest free-flowing river in Alabama and one of the most biodiverse in North America, a shoals-and-lilies float from Birmingham down past…

Pascagoula River

Waterway

The largest undammed river system in the lower forty-eight, running through bottomland swamp to the Gulf, with sandbar camping and bass-to-redfish water…

Bogue Chitto River

Waterway

Louisiana's best-known paddling river, running out of Mississippi through white sandbars and cypress bends to the Pearl, an hour from New Orleans.

Elkhorn Creek

Waterway

The Bluegrass smallmouth float, running through horse country from the forks near Georgetown down a limestone gorge to the Kentucky River at…

Brandywine Creek

Waterway

Delaware's signature stream, running out of the Pennsylvania piedmont through Brandywine Creek State Park and Wilmington, with smallmouth in the ledges and…

Buffalo River

Waterway

America's first National River, a hundred and thirty-five undammed miles under five-hundred-foot bluffs, and the float trip most Arkansans measure others against.

Kings River

Waterway

A free-flowing Ozark smallmouth stream running north from the Boston Mountains through bluff-lined bends to Table Rock Lake, best floated in spring.

Spring River

Waterway

Nine million gallons an hour out of Mammoth Spring feed this cold north Arkansas river, a year-round trout and float stream that…