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CONNECTICUT WATER TRAIL LINKS
The State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Coastal Access Guide is designed to help you explore the Connecticut shore. The DEEP Boating Division has additional fresh water boat launches and general information.
Housatonic Valley Paddle Club also has a Faceboook page.
Housatonic Valley Greenway And River Trail Management Plan
The Connecticut River Boating Guide: Source To Sea This book is a comprehensive guide to boating on the Connecticut River from the source to the Sound
Canoe and Natural Resource Guide to the Quinnipiac River This booklet includes detailed maps showing canoe and fishing access points as well as historical, geological and wildlife information.
Upper Quinnipiac River Canoeable Trail Guide This booklet details the how to access and paddle the narrow Upper Quinnipiac.
Trails.com has a clickable map of Connecticut flat-water paddling and canoeing (membership required for full access).
Connecticut Recreational Canoe & Kayaking Maps from ctxguide.com provide a clickable map to topographic maps of Connecticut lakes and rivers
CTvisit.com provides a search listings for places to go to canoe, kayak, tube, whitewater, and flatwater.
Connecticut Sea Kayakers (ConnYak) is a open club devoted to sea kayaking.
NATIONAL WATER TRAIL LINKS
The National Park Service’s page on water trails is available at http://www.nps.gov/ncrc/portals/rivers/projpg/watertrails.htm
The American Rivers NEW Blue Trails Guide is available at http://www.bluetrailsguide.org/
The American Canoe Association ACA website is available at http://www.americancanoe.org/site/c.lvIZIkNZJuE/b.4085469/k.BF93/Home.htm and their description of requirements to be listed as one of their Recommended Water Trails.
Our neighbor, Rhode Island, has a NEW water trail called Rhode Island Blueways at http://www.exploreri.org/index.php
"As Maine goes, so goes the nation" with its renown groundbreaking water trail at Maine Island Trail Association
The Northern Forest Canoe Trail stretches from New York to Maine http://www.northernforestcanoetrail.org/
The Pennsylvania Water Trails site is at: http://www.fish.state.pa.us/watertrails/trailindex.htm
The Susquehanna River Trail Association site is at http://www.susquehannarivertrail.org/
The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network water trails are accessible at http://www.baygateways.net/paddling.cfm
The Northeastern Illinois Water Trails is at http://www.openlands.org/watertrails.asp
New York City unveils a NEW network of kayak and canoe launches at http://blog.americanrivers.org/wordpress/index.php/2008/04/07/new-york-unveils-network-of-kayak-canoe-launches/
The Washington Water Trails Association (WWTA) site is at http://www.wwta.org/index2.asp