Reservations: 1-866-USA-Raft. Call Today! View available trip times and book online 24/7! With 25+ years of experience, a rigorous training program and the best rafting guides and gear in the business, USA Raft is well qualified to guide you and your family or group on the French Broad, Watauga or Nolichucky Rivers. We're recognized in: Men's Journal, American Scouting Digest, National Geographic Adventure and Hooked on the Outdoors. "Thank you so much for hosting the NC Division of Tourism’s United Kingdom Press and Tour Operator Group. Rafting was the HIGHLIGHT of the trip. Your guides were outstanding. They were skilled, knowledgeable and fun. Thanks again!" Wit Tuttell. Public Relations Director. North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development.
Count on MAG dba USA Raft on the French Broad, Nolichucky and Watauga Rivers to provide your family or group with the highest quality Tennessee white water rafting adventure on the Nolichucky River. Lets go smoky Mountain rafting in the Nolichucky River Gorge!
Nolichucky River The Nolichucky River in Erwin, TN is the premier Tennessee whitewater rafting experience! With 8+ miles of breathtaking scenery and over twenty-five Adventure Class rapids, the Nolichucky River Gorge is truly a pristine, whitewater rafting paradise. No experience is required. For a family float trip with children as young as 4 years old, try the Lower Nolichucky River. Our outpost is just 20 minutes from Johnson City, TN and 45 minutes from Asheville, NC and 1 hour to Boone, Banner Elk and Blowing Rock, North Carolina (northwest of Great Smoky Mountain National Park).
Watauga River Family Float Trip: (Elizabethton, TN). Scenic 1/2 day rafting trip for ages 4+, near Roan Mountain, Johnson City, Lake Watauga and Elizabethton, TN and the Boone, Banner Elk and Blowing Rock, NC area. Class 1-2.
Our TN rafting guides complete a rigorous training program, led by Glenn Goodrich, "the Godfather of Whitewater Rafting", according to "Paddler Magazine." USA Raft has also made a substantial investment in high performance, self-bailing rafts to enhance the safety and quality of your Tennessee whitewater rafting adventure.
Please call 1-866-USA-Raft for unpublished youth group rates for Tennessee white water rafting - scouts, camps, schools and churches. Ask a question or request availability.
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Closest whitewater rafting to Johnson City and Erwin, Tennessee TN.
USA Raft on the French Broad and Nolichucky Rivers are easily accessible to Interstate 26 W (I-26W) in North Carolina and Tennessee, near Blue Ridge Mountain vacation areas in Asheville, Black Mountain, Lake Lure, Hendersonville, Hot Springs, Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Mt. Mitchell and Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina (NC) and Erwin, Johnson City and Jonesborough in Tennessee (TN).
French Broad River There is lots of whitewater action on this trip, but not too much for first time rafters! We offer half day and day trips with lunch for ages 8+. There is always a professional guide in every raft. No experience is necessary. Our French Broad outpost is just 30 minutes from north Asheville, NC and 1 hour from Johnson City, Tennessee TN.
USA Raft French Broad and Nolichucky Rivers provides our rafting customers with Exceptional Quality and Value, while striving to exceed the highest professional standards for outfitters and guides, like those developed and set for over 35 years by our friends/mentors at USA Raft, Inc., who offer rafting trips in TN on the Pigeon River in Tennessee, Nantahala, Gauley, Cheat and New Rivers.