Southern New England’s waterways offer numerous beautiful and exciting paddling opportunities, and Paddling Connecticut and Rhode Island takes you there. From flatwater and tidal rivers to wilderness trips, easy whitewater, and coastal and open water expeditions, this guidebook describes thirty-one trips that encompass Connecticut’s greatest watersheds and nearly every river that can be paddled in Rhode Island. Find trips along the Housatonic, the Connecticut, and the Thames, as well as Connecticut’s Mystic River and Rhode Island’s Pawtuxet. Whether you use your canoe or kayak to fish, hunt, bird watch, or just relax and enjoy the outdoors, you’ll find plenty of locations in this guide that are just right for you.