Call me crazy but I want to kayak from Western PA to Northern Ohio. How can I find the creeks & rivers?

Question

Call me crazy but I want to kayak from Western PA to Northern Ohio. How can I find the creeks & rivers to get me to where I want to go?

Ideally, I'd like to go from zip code 16066 to 44035. Of course I don't expect that kind of luxury. Something close will do the trick.

It does not seem easy to find the creeks & rivers to do this. Please help.

Answer 1

You could use areal photos from google earth

Answer 2

Crazy, goto an outdoors store and look for a map, you might have to carry or drag your kayak as some streams rivers and creeks might be dried up.

Answer 3

It isn't crazy, I once read about a couple who canoed from Alaska to Florida. And in fact Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana have many historical portages, some of which are still footpaths in the woods not so hard to find that Indians and French Courier du Bois used 200 years ago. Factor In Ft Wayne as the biggest and most important  of these. Some towns in Ohio, like La Rue and Versailles  were originally portage towns, (From the Ottawa to the Miami rivers ) Bigger towns abound in that area now, thanks to the industrial age no longer using the rivers,  but the names stuck and the history is delightful... My personal favorite  portage is the Bellefontaine road that goes roughly from St. Joseph Indiana, to Pleasant Lake Indiana, connecting the St. Joseph of Maumee to the Pigeon River which flows into Michigan and then meets the St Joseph of the lake River in Elkhart, and then on to South Bend, Indiana,(past the Notre Dame campus), and finally into Lake Michigan at St Joseph Michigan..

   .I'd love to do that.. Count me in, Take me along! We can write all about it in National Geographic... (Are you an experienced boatsman?

Answer 4

Try Google map, and if you can download, try the google earth. it shows you a nearly true picture of the path, with every feature around... try the address, they have some free services too

http://map.google.com

and

http://earth.google.com

Answer 5

Try Google Earth viewer.

Answer 6

get goofle earth and zoom in to each and every inch between the two pescribed places.

you will definitely find some creeks ,ie, if there are any .if you search properly.

Answer 7

I don't know about PA, but OH has info available.  Check out this site...http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/watercraft/bo...