Whitewater Rafting
Tours in Pennsylvania.

Pine Creek Outfitters serves the Pine Creek Rail Trail from Wellsboro, the gateway town to Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon. The 62-mile rail trail follows the abandoned New York Central line through Pine Creek Gorge — a 1,000-foot-deep canyon cut into the Allegheny Plateau and surrounded by Tioga and Tiadaghton State Forests. The outfitter handles bike rentals, shuttle service between trail access points, and guided cycling tours through old-growth hemlock stands and along the canyon rim. Wildlife along the corridor includes nesting bald eagles, river otters, and one of Pennsylvania's densest black bear populations. Spring brings whitewater paddling on the creek itself, and fall brings the most dramatic foliage views in the state from the Colton Point and Leonard Harrison rim overlooks.

Whitewater Challengers operates raft and kayak trips on the Lehigh River through Lehigh Gorge State Park in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. The Lehigh runs class II-III through a steep, forested gorge with rhododendron-lined banks and waterfalls dropping in from the rim, and scheduled dam releases from Francis E. Walter reservoir produce reliable summer flow even in dry years. Trip options include family-friendly float sections, the dam-release whitewater days that run March through October, and overnight camping packages at the company's riverside base in Weatherly. The Lehigh Gorge is also paralleled by the D&L Trail, opening combined paddle-and-bike trips through one of the more dramatic river canyons in the mid-Atlantic.

Wilderness Voyageurs has been running the Lower Youghiogheny River through Ohiopyle State Park since 1964, making it one of the oldest commercial rafting operations in the eastern United States. The Lower Yough drops 27 feet per mile through 7.5 miles of continuous class III whitewater — Cucumber, Railroad, Dimple, and Double Hydraulic among the named rapids — and is the most rafted river in Pennsylvania thanks to natural flow that holds reliable water from spring through fall. Beyond rafting, the company runs cycling tours on the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail that passes directly through Ohiopyle, plus multi-day gravel adventure trips into the Pine Creek Gorge and the Laurel Highlands. The base sits in Ohiopyle village, surrounded by 20,500 acres of state park.