The Chattooga River Guide

The Chattooga is the wild one — a federally protected Wild and Scenic River tumbling down the Georgia–South Carolina line, and the river where Deliverance was filmed in 1972. Section IV is the serious business: Class IV and V rapids with names like Seven Foot Falls and Corkscrew that flip rafts and demand a licensed guide, no exceptions. This is one of the premier whitewater rivers in the Southeast, undammed and undeveloped, running clear and cold through a gorge that looks exactly as remote as the movie made it feel. Section III is the runnable-by-mortals version; Section IV is the one you brag about.