The Blue Ridge Voyageurs

Paddling Resource Links

Updated March, 2020
Please send link suggestions and corrections to Mike Martin

River Gauges

• American Whitewater river info pages
• BRV River Levels Guide
• Maryland USGS Real Time
• Virginia USGS Real Time
• West Virginia USGS Real Time
• Pennsylvania USGS Real Time
• Little Falls USGS Real Time
• Millville USGS Real Time
• DC Area Gauges and Links Tables
  An online companion to Steve Ettinger’s Capital Canoeing & Kayaking guidebook, designed to help target nearby creeks quickly and while there’s still water in them. About the tables.

River Rankings and Canoe-Zero Levels

• BRV/MCC
• Keelhauers CC
• International Scale of River Difficulty

Weather & River Level Forecasts

• National Weather Service
• Leesburg VA forecast
• Rainfall Projections
• BRV River Levels Guide

WV/MD/PA Area Dam Release Schedules

• Bloomington (N. Branch Potomac) Releases
• Gauley River Fall Dam Releases
• Lehigh/Walt Francis Dam
• Stonycreek Releases
• Upper Yough

Message Boards

• BRV Facebook page
• Paddle Prattle
• Baltimore Canoe Club FB page
• Mason Dixon Canoe FB page
• Coastal Canoeists FB Page
• Canoe Cruisers (CCA) Message Board
• Cboats.net
• Boater Talk
• Northeast Paddlers Message Board
• Paddling.net

Padding Clubs

• Blue Ridge Voyageurs homepage
• Canoe Cruisers Association
• Coastal Canoeists
• Monocacy Canoe Club
• Mason Dixon Canoe Cruisers
• Baltimore  Canoe Club
• West Virginia Wildwater Association
• Greater Harrisburg Canoe Club
• Carolina Canoe Club
• Benscreek Canoe Club (PA-Southern Allegheny Region)
• Lancaster Canoe Club (PA)
• Three Rivers Paddling Club (Western PA)
• Conewago Canoe Club (PA)
• Keelhaulers Canoe Club (Ohio)
• Chota Canoe Club (Knoxville, TN)
• Tennessee Valley Canoe Club
• Rhode Island Canoe Association
• Penobscot Paddle and Chowder Society (Maine)
• AMERICAN WHITEWATER'S NATIONAL LIST OF AFFILIATED CANOE-KAYAK CLUBS

Canoe & Kayak Rentals & Shuttles

•  Hills to Hills Shuttle (New and Gauley)
• Antietam Creek Canoe Co.
• Blue Mountain Outfitters (Harrisburg area)
• Downriver Canoe (South Fork Shenandoah)
• Eagles Nest Outfitters (South Branch Potomac)
• Clore Brothers Outfitters (Rappahannock)
• Virginia Outdoor Center (Rappahannock)
• River & Trail Outfitters (Harpers Ferry)
• Harpers Ferry Adventure Center (Harpers Ferry)

Canoe & Kayak Retailers

• Appomattox River Company
• Blue Mountain Outfitters
• Potomac Paddlesport kayak store

Guidebooks

• MD/VA/WV/PA-Area Paddling Guidebooks

Instruction

• Antietam Creek Canoe Co.
• CKAPCO/Mike Aronoff's Web site
• Bob Foote
• Canoe Cruisers Association
• Davey Hearn - Whitewater Racing
• Karen Knight
• Madawaska Kanu Center
• Outdoor Excursions - Scott Coulter's school
• Potomac Paddlesports
• Nantahala Outdoor Center
• Valley Mill Kayak School
• Zoar Outdoors

Other Resources

• ACE Adventure Center, Oak Hill, WV - WV Rafting Outfitter
• American Canoe Association
• American Whitewater
• BRV Conservation links
• Canoe & Kayak Magazine
• Calleva
• Costa Rica Rios - whitewater canoe and kayak outfitters
• Expéditions Rivière Noire (Quebec/Ontario)
• Friends of the Cheat
• Friends of the Blackwater
• Kanubi.net - the blog of our own Richard Hopley
• Great Falls Foundation
• Killarney Lodge (a luxury cabin resort/restaurant in Algonquin provincial park, Ontario)
• MHO Adventures - outfitter for Ontario's James Bay Watershed as well as Northern Quebec and the Arctic. 
• National Organzation for Rivers
  (river law and paddlers rights group)
• Paddleabout.com kayak buyers' guide
• Potomac Conservancy
• Potomac Riverkeeper
• QAJAQ USA - Greenland style kayak boat building, history, & techniques. Download free newsletter
• Team River Runner -  helps injured veterans find healing from kayaking
• West Virginia Rivers Coalition
• whitewatervideo.com - Home of "Paddle Snake" and other great videos