Adventure Adviser: Here are a couple of options, within a half-day’s drive from Manhattan. A mere two hours away, Clark Outdoors (860-672-6365) is a small outfitter in West Cornwall, Connecticut.

The Whitewater Junior Olympics and the Junior Whitewater Canoeing World Championship are two big whitewater competitions coming soon to the Nantahala Outdoor Center in Bryson City, North Carolina.

After years of training, my 13-year-old daughter and I recently rose to the challenge and met a long-term goal of paddling a multiday whitewater river, in a canoe, without spills, swims or mishaps.

Adventure Adviser: Lucky for you (and me, too), there’s a pretty simple answer to your question. For top-notch, accredited whitewater schools in your neck of the woods, there are really only two ...

Shawn Malone's son River, left, guides during a rafting trip on the Ocoee River with his parents Shawn and Dana. Shawn Malone knows that whitewater canoeing has its risks. He has lost friends in ...

In the 1970s, canoeing was not a well-known way of spending one’s time. Even more fringe was whitewater canoeing in open, unwieldy aluminum canoes that were difficult to control, took to rocks like ...

Whitewater churns into foam as double-ended paddles windmill one-person boats into position. The paddles go up in the air as the boats slide through red or green gates, then the furious wind milling ...

TURNER BEND - Rains late last week produced runoff of a magnitude not seen since last spring, opening the floodgates of paddlers' pent-up passions for whitewater runs on the rivers of Northwest ...