Late season U.S. river rafting guide with top runs, timing, gear, and safety tips for visitors before winter arrives.

The unwanted phone call came a couple weeks ago. ”Hey, it’s Gauley season. When are you coming up to go whitewater rafting with us?” asked Joe Stevens, a guide for Mountain River Tours in Hico, W.Va. ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — An Ohio man drowned Monday during a commercial rafting trip on the Gauley River, a spokesperson for the National Park Service said. The 46-year-old man was rafting a ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — A spokesperson for the National Park Service said it may be early next week before divers can enter the waters of the Gauley River at Shipwreck Rock to recover the body of a ...

From coast to coast, America is packed with rivers ready for your next adrenaline rush. Here are the best whitewater spots ...

Gov. Jim Justice announced on Sept. 6 that Gauley Season whitewater rafting opportunities have begun officially for 2024. The Gauley River National Recreation Area will offer rafters an opportunity to ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The fall rafting season on West Virginia’s Gauley River gets started this week. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin lowering Summersville Lake to its winter level ...

OAK HILL, W.Va. -- Two kinds of people clamber aboard a River Expeditions raft on the Upper Gauley River in late September/early October: Those who've been dumped overboard into the churning rapids ...

The “Sweets of the East” seem to be making trips to South America an annual rite. Captained by Margaret Cadmus, the all-female whitewater rafting team based on the New and Gauley rivers in the ...

The third fatality of the 2009 Gauley River whitewater rafting season was reported Friday, this one claiming the life of an Indiana man, National Park Service officials said. It is believed to be the ...

— -- For Heather Lukacs of Russellville, W. Va., a favorite part of the Gauley River is near a break in a 100-foot rock wall where Canyon Doors Rapid forms standing waves. With a lifetime of ...

The raft steadies for what seems like a nanosecond before the crest of a wave hooks the thick rubber inflatable and propels it through the roiling water. Stick with the locals, who favor the Upper ...