Forty years ago, in 1983, John Ruskey embarked on a raft trip from home state of Colorado, traversing rivers in an attempt to get to the Gulf of Mexico. Five months into the expedition, he wound up ...

Teenagers and younger kids with Spring Initiative, an after-school program in Clarksdale, Mississippi, row down the Mississippi River while on a canoeing trip in Helena, Arkansas on Saturday, May 11, ...

A wooden canoe made by Native Americans centuries ago will soon be available for the public to see at a new museum in Mississippi. The canoe is about 25 feet long and was made from a nearly ...

CARUTHERSVILLE – There was no brass band playing to greet John Ruskey and his five crew mates as they paddled their 30-foot wood canoe into Caruthersville to end an 11-day voyage on the Mississippi ...

Summer is almost here and Mississippi's creeks and rivers seem more inviting in the heat. And fortunately, Mississippi has thousands of miles of water to enjoy. However, not everyone owns a canoe or ...

JACKSON, Miss. — A canoe that’s hundreds of years old will be one of the largest artifacts for visitors to see in the new Museum of Mississippi History. Workers are preparing a display case for the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A canoe that’s hundreds of years old will be one of the largest items in the Museum of Mississippi History. Workers are preparing a display for the canoe that is 25.5 feet (7.8 ...

There's no better way to say goodbye to college life than to pack a 14-foot plastic canoe with the bare essentials and drift south on the Wabash River in search of adventure along the Mississippi. At ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A group of paddlers are attempting a canoeing journey down the entire Mighty Mississippi. The paddlers will canoe non-stop from Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — It was exactly 6am, on May 4th, on Minnesota's Lake Itasca when four men took off in their canoe, trying to make history. Scott Miller, Joel Ford, Perry Whitaker and Adam Macht are ...