Paddling the Shenandoah June 18

Today we decided to go to the Shenandoah River State Park for a morning of paddling on the Shenandoah River. There is currently no RV camping at this park. As we were driving in we stopped at the Culler overlook. What a magnificent view.

Looking South West from Cullers Overlook

Looking North West from Cullers Overlook

We drove around the park to see what the facilities looked like and they are very nice. Several picnic shelters well separated from each other as well as the primitive camping area.

We couldn't help but think the John Denver song Take Me Home Country Roads should be playing as we paddled up the river.

Suzette Paddles up river

Once we got through the riffles just off the launch area we headed up river, well that is South since this is one of the rivers that flows north. We went as far as the next set of riffles and then drifted back. I did work my way above the riffles just to say I had done it.

We didn't keep track of the time but we think we were on the river a little after 10AM and we had the kayaks back on shore about 12:30PM. After a short break we loaded the kayaks and headed to Front Royal for lunch at the South Street grill.

You can view the pictures we took with our new Hero.