Quapaw Canoe Company - Your Mississippi River Adventure Starts Here!

So you want to get on the River?
Your Adventure begins here!

Three locations to serve you on the Lower Mississippi River:
Quapaw Canoe Co. Clarksdale, MS Est. 1998	Quapaw Canoe Co. Helena, AR Est. 2008 (Canoe & Kayak Rentals)	Quapaw Vicksburg Outpost Vicksburg, MS Est. 2016

Top 10 Most Awesome Things About Quapaw Canoe Company

Our Mississippi - Partnering to Keep America's River Great - Summer '13

River Gator Lower Mississippi River Water Trail

"Surfing a 300 Mile-Long Wave" - A Canoe Expedition During the Great Flood of 2011
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Surfing a 300 Mile-Long Wave - A Canoe Expedition During the Great Flood of 2011 - Memphis to Vicksburg

35 minutes of photos, video clips, river music by John Ruskey Featuring W. Hodding Carter and Christopher LaMarca

Movie Clips

Life Lessons of the Dugout Canoe - CNN iReport

Creative Crossroads from Barefoot Workshops

If you've ever listened to the blues, or R&B, or hip-hop, you need (that's right, need) to make a pilgrimage to the land that started it all: the Mississippi Delta.
Where the Big River Gets Lost - Nat'l Geographic Article (pdf)

Get your copy of the 30th Anniversary Issue of Outside Magazine, and see the story "Anyone for a Dip?" (Pgs. 164-172)

We guided Editor-at-large (and Memphis native) Hampton Sides on a baptismal cross-channel swim last May. For a preview of the psychology involved, and an interesting preview of Hampton's next work of non-fiction, a Memphis-based oral history of the Martin Luther King Assassination, listen to the podcast on the Outside Website, or read the story.

57 Feet & Rising
By: W. Hodding Carter
During the Great Flood of 2011, the Mississippi was an unleashed monster, with deadly currents and a flow rate that could fill the Superdome in less than a minute. Defying government orders, Delta native W. HODDING CARTER and two wet-ass pals canoed 300 miles from Memphis to Vicksburgï¿½surfing the crest, watching wildlife cope with the rising tide, and assessing whether manï¿½s ï¿½attempts to tame this river will always be doomed.
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