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Canoeing Guide to Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia |
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Mary Shaw and Roy Weil |
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The Canoeing Guide to Western Pennsylvania and
Northern West Virginia is a guidebook to the canoeable
waters that run westward out of Pennsylvania via the Ohio
River. It includes some streams from neighboring areas,
as well. The guide is the result of volunteer effort over
the past 30 years by many, many canoeists, working
through the Pittsburhg Council of American Youth Hostels.
It is currently in its eighth edition, covering about
3000 miles of rivers in 470 pages. The primary purpose of this department of our Web is to make the summary data, especially river classifications, gauges, and preferred water levels, available to the canoeing community. This is a big table, available as
You will, of course, want to know how to interpret the columns. You'll also need current water levels. Get them from the Pittsburgh Corps of Engineers or from the USGS real-time hydrology site A word of caution: We and many others compiled the Guide as an aid to pleasure canoeists. We have tried to present accurate descriptions of these rivers and creeks. However, we are human, and rivers change with time. The suggestions in the guide, and any conclusions you may draw from these pages, may be invalidated by water and weather conditions, by the skill of your paddling party, and by changes in the rivers themselves. Therefore we can no take responsibility for errors, omissions, changes in the rivers, or for other problems encountered through use of this guide. Each padler who sets forth on a river assumes personal responsibility, not only for his or her own safety, but also for the safey of others on the trip. Ultimately, your safety depends mostly on your own common sense and good judgement. For your own copy of the book, send $16.50 (includes tax, postage, handling) to Shaw-Weil Associates, 414 South Craig St #307, Pittsburgh PA 15213 or order from Pittsburgh Council, American Youth Hostels. |
You are visiting FreeWheeling Easy in Western Pennsylvania, copyright © 1998,1999,2000,2001 by Mary Shaw and Roy Weil. We encourage you to link to these pages or print copies for personal use. However, if you want to copy the material for any other use, you must ask us first. Other outdoor publications by the authors. Page updated 01/21/06 by Mary Shaw Comments to maintainer.
As always we have made a serious effort to present accurate descriptions. However we are human, trails change with time, and we occasionally receive incorrect information. Therefore we can not be responsible for discrepancies between these descriptions and actual trail conditions. Use common sense, judgment and be careful out there.