Georgia Rivers

The tally is in from Georgia Rivers June 19 Paddle Georgia 2026 cleanup on the Oostanaula River: 1,280 pounds of trash removed from the river, including a desk chair? and remote control car? ?!@ #$! Thanks to all our Paddle Georgia participants who performed a clean sweep of some 13 miles of river. It was picked clean! And, a big shout out to Keep Rome-Floyd County Beautiful for assisting with the dumpster! Come on folks, lets put the trash where it belongs and keep it out of our rivers!

It's hot now, but come October and November, Georgia Rivers has some cool trips planned for the Flint River, Okefenokee Swamp and Suwannee River.

Registration for these adventures opened today! Reserve your space before these popular trips fill up.

🛶Oct. 9-11 Fall Float on the Flint features 36 miles on the lower Flint between Albany and Bainbridge.
🦎Nov 6-8 Okefenokee Swamp-Suwannee River follows the path of the Suwannee for 22 miles from Stephen Foster State Park in the Okefenokee to Fargo
🐊Nov. 20-22: The Okefenokee Swamp Adventure is the perfect two-day introduction to the swamp with a day on the prairie-pocked east side and a day on the wildly-diverse west side of the 400,000-acre wilderness with indoor accommodations at the Suwannee River EcoLodge.

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE:
Fall Float on the Flint: https://garivers.org/fall-float-on-the-flint/
Both Okefenokee Trips: https://garivers.org/paddle-georgia/paddle-georgia-okefenokee-suwannee-adventure/

Explore other trips on our event calendar: https://garivers.org/events/

Georgia Rivers had the pleasure of leading a group of teens participating in the Refugee Womens Network on a paddle trip on the Yellow River this week. The RWN summer program is designed to provide outdoor experiences for children of refugee/immigrant families. It was a tired bunch of girls at the end of a 6.5-mile journey...but it was a good kind of tired. Georgia Rivers offers scholarships to women, people of color, recent immigrants and low-income individuals and families to participate in our paddle trips. Apply at https://georgiarivernetwork.regfox.com/paddle-georgia-scholarship-application

Attention Paddle Georgia 2026 Participants: If you have not already completed the post-Paddle Georgia 2026 survey, please do so at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H6YH3HN We need your feedback to keep improving the Paddle Georgia experience. Also...you can put in your two cents on our destination for Paddle Georgia 2027 set for June 20-26, 2027.

For an overview of Paddle Georgia 2026 check out these reflections and photographs from Paddle Georgia coordinator Joe Cook. Paddle Georgia engaged some 360 paddlers during seven days on the Cartecay, Coosawattee, Oostanaula and Coosa rivers and helped generate some $100,000 for river protection!

Paddlers Age 3 to 80 Make Paddle Georgia 2026 A Family Affair Paddle Georgia 2026 is in the books, and the records will show that… some 360 people participated we travelled some 95 miles on the Cartecay, Coosawattee, Oostanaula and Coosa rivers we remov…