Dan River - Kayak Trip / Canoe Trip
Report Type: Day Trip Report
Trip Dates: July 7, 2007
Nearest City: Danbury, NC
Difficulty: Easy
Submitted by: Scott
Description:
The Dan River offers a variety of paddling experiences from flat water to class II+ rapids. Our 10 mile trip took us from Francisco down to Hanging Rock State Park.
This is an easy, entertaining trip with frequent small class I rapids to offer some basic challenge to new paddlers and entertainment to more seasoned river runners. In this stretch we encountered 30-40 small rapids. A couple rope swings and one cliff jumping experience provided some diversion while in the occasional deeper, flat water. Scenery was generally undeveloped with only a few houses clustered along side the river in a few places.
Accommodations:
Hanging Rock State Park is a NC State Park and offers a very nice camping experience with flush toilets and showers.
Dan River Company and Hanging Rock Outdoors both offer shuttle service.
Outfitting:
Dan River Company offers shuttles throughout the day while Hanging Rock Outfitters tends to offer at limited times on their busiest days. Either way, call ahead.
Directions:
Hwy 8 north out of Winston-Salem through Danbury a few miles north.
Resources:
Paddling Eastern NC (PaddlingEasternNC.com)
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