White Water Rafting in the Americas
From half day trips for beginner rafters to multi-day trips for experts, there are lots to choose from. White water rafting in North and South America offers you the ultimate choice of whitewater rafting travel fun on over 75 rivers across the U.S., Canada and South America. We have listed some of the areas and rivers that you might consider for white water rafting trips. All offer various levels of trips from family to challenging class 4 rapids. Check with each local site for details, prices and packages.
If we have missed a river that should be on the list please add a comment to our blog with the correct information and we will be happy to add it. Note that we have not been able to verify the accuracy of each site and the rivers that provide these rapids. Please take the time to verify the skill level and the training level of the guides and the quality of the equipment used by each provider to ensure you have the best and safest trip that you can.
West Coast rafting trips:
Grand Canyon rafting
American River rafting and Kern River rafting in California
Rogue River in Oregon
Salt River rafting in Arizona
British Columbia Rafting, Canada
Rocky Mountain Region rafting trips:
Colorado River rafting in Utah
Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho
Arkansas River rafting in Colorado
Flathead River rafting (Glacier national Park) in Montana
Mid-West rafting trips:
Peshtigo and Minominee River rafting in Wisconsin
East Coast rafting trips:
Rafting West Virginia’s Gauley River
Rafting the Kennebec River in Maine
Nantahala River rafting in North Carolina’
Chatooga River rafting in Georgia and South Carolina
Rafting the Deerfield and Millers Rivers (Massachusetts),
West River (Vermont) or Housatonic River (Connecticut)
Lehigh River rafting in Pennsylvania
Rafting the Delaware River in New York and Pennsylvania
Northern Canada (multi-day expeditions)
Yukon Territory Rafting- Yukon, Wind, Snake and Firth Rivers
Northwest Territory Rafting – Nahanni, Mountain, Horton and Thelon Rivers
Nunavut Territory Rafting – Copper Mine and Burnside Rivers
Northern British Columbia Rafting – Taku and Stikine Rivers
Southern Canada (day trips, resorts and multi-day packages)
British Columbia Rafting – Thompson, Nahatlatch, Fraser and Stein Rivers
Quebec and Ontario Rafting- Ottawa River
South American White Water River Rafting
Futaleufu River Rafting (Chile)
Rio Upano River Rafting (Ecuador)
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April 8th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Great list!
I would include Central American rivers as well. The most well known Costa Rican rivers are the Pacuare and the Río Reventazon. There are many others including the Naranjo. Thought I have not rafted in Mexico, it has very good rafting especially in the southern states. Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and Nicaragua all have rafting as well.
For South American I would include the Río Mendoza outside of Mendoza, Argentina.
-mariah