Twenty-three days of Almost Heaven will commence later this week in Nicholas County. The annual Gauley River whitewater season kicks off Friday morning at the base of Summersville Dam. The season ...

Gauley Season has officially begun. The Gauley River National Recreation Area will offer whitewater rafters from around the globe an opportunity to take on some of the world’s top whitewater runs in a ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Every September and October, West Virginia’s Gauley River features the world’s best whitewater. The Summersville Dam is drawn down at 2,800 cubic feet per second by the U.S. Army ...

OAK HILL, W.Va. -- Two kinds of people clamber aboard a River Expeditions raft on the Upper Gauley River in late September/early October: Those who've been dumped overboard into the churning rapids ...

Coincidence or no, school has just started back and arriving soon after it -- "Pure Screaming Hell." West Virginia's infamous fall Gauley River whitewater season kicks off Friday, Sept. 5, sending ...

You know it’s springtime in West Virginia when the robins start singing and the tourists start screaming — happily, while riding giant rubber rafts down the New and Gauley rivers. “These are two of ...

White-knuckle thrills, cold beers with friends, gourmet meals amid astonishing scenery— there’s nothing like a whitewater river trip. Here are seven of America’s best. White-knuckle thrills, cold ...

cheshir@norfolk.infi.net A: Two of the best rivers in this area for whitewater rafting are the New and Gauley Rivers in south-central West Virginia. Applachian Wildwaters runs half-, full-, and ...