Okefenokee Swamp Canoe Trip

This is a three-day canoe trip directly across the largest freshwater swamp in the world and one of the largest wildernesses in the southeast, the Okefenokee.  If you're squeamish about swamps, you shouldn't be.  The water in the swamp comes from numerous artesian wells...with plenty of clean, clear natural water.  It's also located far away from industrial sites...so the air is always fresh and clean.

There are two Okefenokee trips listed on the GO website this spring - this trip and one in mid-April.  Both trips cross the middle of the swamp, and will be reserved for our group; so for the most part, we'll see no other people except our group for the three-day trip.  There are few trails as long as this one in the southeast; whether you are hiking, biking, or canoeing, where this is the case.  Both trips use wooden platforms above the swamp on which to set up our tents and spend the night.  The trip leader will provide a large mosquito net tent where meals can be prepared.  Also, both trips, at one point, will travel through some of the most magnificent groves of old-growth Cypress in the southeast in the headwaters of the Suwannee River.

The highlights of this trip in late April will be (1) paddling 27 miles over three days, (2) spending one night on an island in the middle of the swamp, and sleeping in an old cabin once used by alligator hunters, and (3) viewing more alligators, due to the warming temperatures which make them more active.  See the description of the mid-April Okefenokee trip for the highlights of that outing.