>LEEDS, Alabama -- Moon River was once a combination gas station, fish camp and dance hall near the Cahaba River on U.S. 78 from the 1930s until the early 1950s. The name will soon be given to a new ...

Everyone should spend a week paddling in a canoe, if not every year, at least once in their life. There’s no better way to get to know someone than being stuck in the same boat for days on end, and it ...

A warm day, a full canoe and we were underway. Actually, it was probably too full. With me as a third passenger, wedged into a low seat, we scraped gravel repeatedly as we floated away from the put-in ...

Here's the deal: (Apologies to Ernest) It felt good being back in the boat after so long. It was a warm Saturday on Memorial Day weekend. Sunshine glittered on the tumbling current. Though the water ...

As I navigated my kayak through a shallow riffle on the Root River, between Allen Bridge and Moen Bridge in Fillmore County, my eyes caught the flash of a paddle in the distance on a sunny warm day in ...

Canoe/kayak hybrids generally please almost no one. Not because of what they are, but because of what they are not. Not a canoe. Not a kayak. But a cross-pollination sprinkled with features from each ...

Shove off from the pebble beach of the aptly named Gravel Landing, dip your paddle into the tannin-tinted water of the Perdido, watch it drip clear off the blade and become dark with the depth of the ...

Floating down the peaceful St. Croix River in a canoe, you'd never know you are close to the busy Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. The St. Croix and Namekagon rivers, which together make up the St.