White Water Rafting in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Blue Ridge Mtns White Water Rivers

Minimum Suggested Level: 750 cfs
The Gauge for this river is 10 miles downstream of the Cooper Creek confluence.
Rapids
Class 3
River Mile 2.5

Corner Pocket  •  Class 2+
River Mile 5.0

Flowing out of Lake Blue Ridge as the Toccoa River, the name changes to Ocoee at the Tennessee border. The white water rafting sections are in Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest. You can find rafting companies, like Rolling Thunder River Co., that lead guided trips down the Ocoee, in McCaysville, Georgia, (about 15 minutes from Blue Ridge.) (Limited to adults and children over 12 years of age).

The dam-controlled Ocoee River has two separate sections for rafters to tackle - the Upper and the Middle (traditional section).
The Ocoee River was chosen as the venue for the whitewater events of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and contains rapids known as Slingshot, Broken Nose and Table saw.

Following its path thru the mountains the river passes thru the remote historic community of Dial, weaving its way thru high range pasturelands.  The river winds and turns with whitewater cascading over large river stones making its way to the big river bend where you will find a low water fall. Large boulders block the river to the left side forcing the river into a small cascade on the right creating a whitewater rush along the river’s run. This section of Toccoa River flows through private property and should be respected as such.

After the river’s bend, the Toccoa River winds thru the mountains thick forest on its descending journey to the lower valley of Fannin County.  Reaching the mountain valley floor the Toccoa River gathers and flows into the water of beautiful Lake Blue Ridge on the edge of the mountain town of Blue Ridge in Fannin County, Georgia.