David Lind

Canoeing the Driftless: a Paddlers Guide for Southeastern Minnesota David Lind

Southeastern Minnesota is a paddler's dream. Throughout the forested bluff landterrain, called the "Driftless Area", there are botheasy paddling routes as well as challenging, moredifficult streams all offering beautifull scenicviews and a variety of wildlife. Canoeing TheDriftless contains maps and descriptions forover 50 routes covering 600 miles to help you plan your paddling trip. Information such as route length, difficulty, hazards, as well as points ofinterest, the best put-in and take-out accesses and shuttle routes are includedto help in choosing a trip to fit your needs. Also included are "RiverScenes" which have interesting information on history along the routes aswell as some personal, sometimes humorous accounts of trips on the rivers. Canoeing TheDriftless is written for all levels ofpaddlers, from the beginner to the most experienced paddler. For the beginner to intermediate paddler there arethe main routes on the Cannon, Zumbro, and Rootrivers, for the more experienced paddlers the routes on the Bear, Deer, Whitewater, and smaller branches of the Root River and ZumbroRiver provide more challenging runs.