Fayette to Heron Road: A truly exquisite experience, this section of the beguiling Volga River will be hard to catch with enough water to paddle, but oh so worth it when…
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Touring the Lower Cache River Swamp Trail: A veritable bayou trip down near the southernmost tip of Illinois, this section of the big Cache River is renowned for its breathtaking cypress…
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Galena to Mississippi River: A fairly primitive yet tidy trip, this last leg of the Galena River starts in its historic namesake city and then ends in a side channel of…
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West Council Hill Road to Galena: A hinge trip that comprises two opposites – first, a rugged and ragged landscape teeming with bluffs, rock outcrops, and galloping riffles, then a kind…
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Elba to Highway 74: A very pretty and intimate little stream, this creek-like river courses through large swaths of public land corridors and is surrounded by tall, attractive hills. Water levels…
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Here’s some video of a wonderful trip on the upper Wisconsin River that comes with two very distinct personalities. The first is a scenic and rugged section with numerous boulder gardens,…
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Iverson Bridge Road to Kumpf Access: A wonderful finale to the mighty Upper Iowa, this section of the river begins and ends with excellent accesses and sublime bluffs unlike any other.…
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Lower Dam to Iverson Bridge Road: A veritable journey into the very heart and soul of the Upper Iowa River, this long day trip can be shortened by using one of…
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Canoecopia 2024 is almost upon us! Best yet, paddling proselytizer, guidebook scribe, and Milespaddled.com’s own Timothy Bauer will be presenting two talks over the three-day event. That’s right, not one, but…
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Trout Run Park to Lower Dam: As diverse as a day trip’s portfolio can get, this section of the Upper Iowa begins in an industrialized area outside of downtown Decorah and…
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Malanaphy Springs to Trout Run Park: Arguably the most ignored section on the Upper Iowa River relative Decorah, this trip does have its dull moments and lots of development, but it…
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Highway 61 to Bay Point Park: A smorgasbord paddle that courses through the Cannon River bottomlands after an encore performance of bluffs before quietly slipping into the Mississippi River backwaters, this…
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Welch to Highway 61: A languorous segment of the Cannon River featuring stately bluffs, occasional rock outcrops, and a sizeable stretch of public land and little development, there’s a lot to…
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Part two of two on the North Branch of the Root River. This section offers lots of riffles as well as several solid Class I rapids. (Adjust to 1080p for the…
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Part one of two on the North Branch of the Root River, a simply stunning escape deep in the heart of the Minnesota Driftless Area that is abound in towering bluffs…
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Theilman to Kruger: A wider and slightly slower segment than those upstream, the salient premium on this trip is scenery and isolation through a huge swath of public land, not to…
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Millville to Theilman: Swift riffles past sweeps of bluffs one after another, this trip down the Zumbro through the heart of a somewhat undeveloped valley is positively engaging. Nasty snags left…
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County Road 7 to Zumbro Falls: Practically a primer for the more fabulous features found downstream, this trip is a very pleasant paddle nonetheless, featuring good wildlife opportunities, the beginning of…
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Otter Rapids Dam to County Road O: This trip on the upper Wisconsin River is one of the DNR’s six recommended routes located within the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, and…
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Millville to Cassville Ferry Landing: The final five miles of the Turkey River to its mouth at the mighty Mississippi, this short trip offers paddlers a small but bite-sized smorgasbord of…
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Tessmer Canoe Access to Gilbertson Park: With long, lean hillsides, occasional flashes of limestone outcrops, and a peppy current coursing over a sand-gravel bottom, this under-paddled segment of the Turkey River…
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Touring Grand Island to Miners Beach at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: A two-for-one buffet of some of the prettiest paddling anywhere in the Upper Midwest, this double-feature starring Lake Superior in…
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Skokie River Dam to Bunker Hill Bridge: The location of the legendary Chicago River along the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan was key to establishing native American, fur trader and later…
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Cameron Crossing Bridge to Au Train Heritage Landing A truly splendiferous (and serendipitous) paddle through the outskirts of the Hiawatha National Forest between Marquette and Munising in the north-central nub of…
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Highway 55 to Highway 139: A truly enchanting landscape surrounding a creek-like river, this trip down the borderline Brule is simply terrific and, in our opinion, worth whatever logistical hassles it…
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Parsley Bridge to Lanesboro Access: A simply stunning escape deep in the heart of the Minnesota Driftless Area that is abound in towering bluffs lush with exquisite limestone outcrops, rolling hills…
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Graue Mill to Plank Road Meadow: A very convenient paddle on a small creek in west suburban Chicago that flows through an oak forest nature preserve into the much larger Des…
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Here’s some video of a Crawfish River section which was a far more interesting paddle than I ever expected. The first half is narrow and intimate with easily-navigable deadfall followed by…
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Here’s some video of one of my favorite paddles on the Crystal River near Waupaca, Wisconsin, a lightwater paddle that’s pure fun over crystal clear water with an amazing amount of…
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Video of the South Branch of the Kishwaukee River, a generally easy-going and beginner-friendly trip at first, before flowing through two forest preserves full of large amounts of deadfall which require…