Rivers list – Northeast Rivers

Here follows a listing of the rivers covered on this website, grouped by watershed and ordered from upstream to downstream with tributaries indented below their mainstems.

Delaware River watershed

River	Mapped length	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
Upper Delaware River		class II	🌄🌊🔒	coming soon
East Branch Delaware River		class II-	🌄🔒💎	in progress
Beaver Kill		class III-	🌊💎	planned
West Branch Delaware River	17.0 miles	class I	🐣🔍	complete
Lackawaxen River		class III-	🌊🔒	planned
Middle Delaware River		class II	🌄🐣🔍💎	coming soon
Lower Delaware River		class II+	🐣🔍	coming soon
Tidal Delaware River		class A	🔍🎨	planned

Susquehanna River watershed

(exclusive of the West Branch Susquehanna River watershed, Chemung River watershed, and Chenango River watershed)

River	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
Upper Susquehanna River	class I+	🐣🔍💎	coming soon
Middle Susquehanna River	class II-	🐣🔒	coming soon
Lower Susquehanna River	class II	🌄🔍🎨	planned
Juniata River	class I	🐣🔍	planned

West Branch Susquehanna River watershed

River	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
Upper West Branch Susquehanna River	class II	🔒	planned
Middle West Branch Susquehanna River	class II	🌄🐣🔒💎	planned
Sinnemahoning Creek	class I	🌄🔒	planned
Lower West Branch Susquehanna River	class I-	🐣🔍	coming soon
Pine Creek	class II	🌄🌊🔍🔒💎	coming soon

Chemung River watershed

River	Mapped length	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
Chemung River	45.7 miles	class I-	🐣🔍	complete
Tioga River		class I-	🐣	planned
Canisteo River		class I-	🐣🔒	planned
Cohocton River		class I	💎	planned

Chenango River watershed

River	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
Chenango River	class I-	🐣	planned
Tioughnioga River	class I	💎	in progress
Otselic River	class I-	🔒	planned

Chesapeake Bay watershed

(exclusive of the Susquehanna River watershed)

River	Mapped length	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
South Fork Shenandoah River		class II	🌄🎨	planned
Monocacy River		class II-		planned

Ohio River watershed

River	Difficulty (key)	Highlights (key)	Status (key)
Upper Allegheny River	class I-	🐣🔒	planned
Middle Allegheny River	class II	🐣🔍	planned
French Creek	class I	🐣	coming soon
Clarion River	class I+	🌄🔒💎	planned
Lower Allegheny River	class A	🔍🎨	planned
Youghiogheny River	class I-	🐣	coming soon

Key

Highlights
🌄 — excellent scenery
🌊 — nice rapids
🐣 — calm water/good for beginners
🔍 — easy access
🔒 — quiet/remote
🎨 — unique/not your typical Northeast river
💎 — contains author-favourite section(s)
Note that highlights may not apply to the entire river or river section. For example, although the middle Delaware River features a long stretch of calm water and is therefore marked as “🐣”, it also includes tricky class II Foul Rift.

Status (last updated 08-Apr-2022)
complete — this guide is complete and polished; keep an eye on “Website news” posts for announcements of major revisions and temporary hazards
proof — this guide is substantially complete but unpolished and may contain minor errors or omissions
in progress — this guide is being written and should be complete within a couple of weeks (off-season) or months (during paddling season); feel free to take a look if you want fragmentary information and lots of BLAHs
coming soon — the author has finished gathering information for this guide and it will be forthcoming within several months
planned — the author is still in the process of gathering information for this guide