Nearly 250,000 people annually float the Ocoee River in rafts. Some pay fees for the opportunity to cover it with a myriad of outfitters. Others kayak down the stream on their own. But now many wonder ...

A black bear stands tall on his hind legs in front of me. The Tennessee native is wearing a helmet and safety vest, and clutching a paddle in one paw. The glassy-eyed specimen is an eye-catching, if ...

Whitewater paddling competition is returning to the Ocoee River for the first time since 2001. The Ocoee River Championships begin Friday morning and run through Sunday and feature seven different ...

After too many days inside, it's time to gather up the crew and have some real fun - the kind you have in the great outdoors, the kind that makes the best stories. The mountains of Southeast Tennessee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 6—OCOEE, Tenn. — More than 100 teenagers from the Atlantic coast in Florida traveled over 700 miles last week for a church ...

There are few places in the country where average Joes and Janes can play Olympian for a day, but Tennessee’s Ocoee River is one of them. This waterway hosted the whitewater events for the 1996 ...

OCOEE, Tenn. -- The engineered whitewater rapids that hosted the 1996 Olympic whitewater events will flow 54 days each year, giving rafters and canoe and kayak paddlers a wild ride. American ...

Six Flags. Connect the Upper and Middle Ocoee runs into one 10-mile (16-kilometer) day with more than 30 named Class II-IV rapids. Barreling through tumblers and hearing the roar of cheers from fellow ...