NYCkayaker Looking for canoe camping suggestions

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:34:32PM -0400, Elizabeth Pennisi wrote:
> My family hails from Maryland, but we are interested in canoe-camping
> (about 3 days, but flexible) in August in the NY-PA-NJ area and are
> looking for suggestions.

I'd suggest snagging a copy of Ed Gertler's "Keystone Canoeing", which
is the definitive reference to most PA streams.  He goes into considerable
detail on several hundred of them and includes notes on which are
appropriate for self-containined canoe-camping.  If you're coming from
Maryland, I'll suggest the Juniata as one possibility; another might
be the Delaware; and another might be the upper parts of the Schuylkill,
which are markedly different from the mistreated river found in Philadelphia.

Since you're thinking of doing this in August, water levels may be a
factor: some of the streams that are running now will likely be too low
to paddle by then.  (Which is why I've stuck to larger ones.)

---Rsk