Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia

Get the authoritative guide to the waterways of Georgia, offering thousands of miles of paddling.

Wet your paddle--and whet your paddling appetite--with Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia, the definitive guide to whitewater, smoothwater, and everything in between. From the Chattahoochee River Watershed in the west to the Savannah River Basin along the eastern border, this is your complete resource for paddling the creeks and rivers of the Peach State. Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia covers 3,700 miles of paddling in more than 80 profiles of rivers and creeks. They range in difficulty from pleasant and uncomplicated runs for beginners, such as the Chattooga River Section II, to whitewater runs in the Tallulah Gorge.

Expert paddlers Suzanne Welander and Bob Sehlinger utilize the latest technology, along with good old-fashioned experience, to make your canoe and kayak adventures easy to enjoy. The book has been revised and updated, with maps and important details like access points, river gauges, mileages, contact information, and GPS coordinates for every put-in and takeout. Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia is useful for paddlers of all skill levels. It is the resource you need to find where to float, no matter what type of boat you paddle.

Inside you'll find

• New maps plus GPS coordinates


• More than 80 river and creek profiles, divided into 8 sections


• Waterway recommendations for beginners, families, campers, and more


• Easy-to-reference descriptions of Georgia's developed Water Trails

Suzanne Welander began canoeing in 1999. Since then, she has completed hundreds of trips exploring Georgia's diverse streams or eddy-hopping down the Ocoee in her whitewater canoe. She has a special passion for wilderness, stoked by multi-day, self-supported canoe trips in remote parts of Alaska, Canada, Montana, and Arizona, in addition to canoe-camping getaways in wild corners of Georgia. Suzanne's curiosity continually draws her to explore sections of rivers she has not yet paddled and to monitor the changes at those she revisits. She's also a half-decent whitewater canoe slalom racer.

When she isn't paddling or writing about rivers, Suzanne works for a North Georgia organic farm and plays saxophone in the Seed and Feed Marching Abominable. Suzanne lives in Atlanta with her husband who's also an avid canoeist, their son, and a small flock of chickens.