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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. As a result 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. However they all offer various levels of trips from family to challenging class 4 rapids. Always check with each local site for details, prices and packages.

However if we have missed a river that should be on the list please add a comment to our blog. Please provide the correct information and we will be happy to add it. However note that we have not been able to verify the accuracy of each site and the rivers that provide these rapids. As a result please take the time to verify the skill level and the training level of the guides. Also the quality of the equipment used by each provider to ensure you have the best and safest trip that you can.

White Water Rafting in the Americas

West Coast rafting trips:

• First, Grand Canyon rafting
• Secondly, American River rafting and Kern River rafting in California
• Thirdly, Rogue River in Oregon
• Fourthly, Salt River rafting in Arizona

British Columbia Rafting, Canada

Rocky Mountain Region rafting trips:

• Firstly, Colorado River rafting in Utah
• Secondly, Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho
• Thirdly, Arkansas River rafting in Colorado
• Fourthly, 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)

• Firstly, British Columbia Rafting – Thompson, Nahatlatch, Fraser and Stein Rivers
• Secondly, 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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