More serious paddlers can take to the water in traditional white-water inflatable rafts.
In the Ohio and White Water river valleys a sandstone and limestone formation predominates.
The Wabash and Erie canal (1843), which connected Lake Erie with the Ohio river, entering the state in Allen county, east of Fort Wayne, and following the Wabash river to Terre Haute and the western fork of the White river from Worthington, Greene county, to Petersburg, Pike county, whence it ran south-south-west to Evansville; and the White Water canal from Hagerstown, Wayne county, mostly along the course of the White Water river, to Lawrenceburg, on the Ohio River, in the south-eastern corner of the state, although now abandoned, served an important purpose in their day.
Have a picnic on the riverbank or try white water rafting which is available in the area.
But it was August and that river isn't exactly world-class white water.
