Paddling Links
Just Started Paddling? Here are some retailers, mellow run rentals, shuttle services, etc. | |
Helpful starter info. for the Huntsville Area by Murray Carroll | |
University of Alabama Outdoor Recreation, Rentals, etc | |
Bear Creek Canoe Run (800) 788-7070 or (256) 331-9184, Hwy 43 North of Hackleburg |
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Coosa Outdoor Center | |
Coosa River Adventures | |
Elk River, TN | |
NACK, Flint River, Paint Rock River Canoe Rentals
OR Chickasaw Canoeing 256-682-1561 or 379-3513 |
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Hiwassee Outfitters | |
Sequatchie, TN | |
Shoal Creek Canoe Run | |
Tallapoosa River Outfitters | |
Terrapin Outdoor Center | |
When It Rains Instruction, Trips, etc. | |
Sipsey Area: Wild Alabama Trading Post, Wren AL Hwys 33 & 36 (256) 974-7678 | |
Southern Trails: 5143 Atlanta Hwy, Montgomery, AL 36109, (334) 272-0952 | |
Alabama Clubs | |
Huntsville Canoe Club | |
Birmingham Bama Backpaddlers? |
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Birmingham Canoe Club | |
Tuscaloosa Canoe & Kayak Club | |
University of Alabama Club? | |
Strokers - Tuscaloosa (no website that I can find ??) may not exist | |
The Saddleback Canoe Club?, a laid back bunch from south Alabama. | |
NE AL Club? | |
Coosa River Paddling Club - 334 272 1207, see Southern Trails for address (above) | |
Out of State Clubs | |
Bluff City Canoe Club, Memphis, TN |
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Columbus Kayakers?, Columbus, MS | |
Mississippi Canoe and Kayak Club | |
TSRA Tennessee's BIG Club, excellent learning programs | |
West Florida Canoe Club | |
Other Alabama Links | |
ARCADIAN Outdoor Guide, pretty useful list of outfitters, among other things | |
Paddling.net, some trip reports | |
Conservation & Access | |
Alabama Water Watch | |
Alabama Rivers Alliance Links to Watchdog Orgs - Extensive | |
Black Warrior Riverkeeper | |
Rivers of Alabama | |
EPA Surf Your Watershed - this is cool... | |
Cahaba River Society | |
Friends of the Little River Canyon Preserve | |
Friends of the Locust Fork | |
Flint River Conservation Association | |
Coosa River Basin Initiative | |
Little River Canyon Center | |
NORS Site, Including River Access Rights | |
River Levels - see also Alabama Whitewater lower frame, americanwhitewater.org site |
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Riverbot - used to be a very cool level retrieval site | |
Mountainbuzz - All Colorado! great site | |
Dreamflows - Western | |
Eddyflower - comprehensive (owns mountainbuzz I think) | |
Other River Guides - only a few of the many... |
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Waldens Ridge Whitewater | |
Oregon, very very nice work | |
Ozark Whitewater Page - the definitive Arkansas source | |
California Creekin - nice, mile by mile Western style descriptions | |
Idaho Whitewater | |
All About Rivers - tries to be everything to everyone? | |
Boatingbeta excellent asheville area site | |
Playak Guide List - International! | |
UK Guide | |
Outfitters, Guides & Instruction | |
Small World Adventures - EXCELLENT Ecuador Guides | |
Canyons - Middle Fork Idaho Outfitter | |
Calleva Paddling - Mexico, etc. | |
DeReimer Adventure Kayaking | |
Middle Fork River Tours possibly the best food, and the most decadent trip on the MF | |
National and International Sites of Interest - only a smattering | |
Milt Aitken's WhitewaterVideo Site | |
Playak - links to many folks | |
Bombtheprom.com Whit is a funny man, but his site is dead! wah! | |
The Infamous Ratt Hole for those of us who still remember rec.boats.paddle | |
Gasket Repair in NC | |
Pete & Ed Books | |
Menasha Ridge Press - publisher of many guidebooks (most old) |