Paddling near Redding, CA

Set in Shasta County, Redding straddles the Sacramento River, which runs through downtown beneath the Sundial Bridge. Time Magazine called it the unofficial capital of kayaking, and the surrounding Shasta-Cascade region delivers flat-water, moving-water, and whitewater within a short drive—Shasta Lake (California's largest reservoir at 370 miles of shoreline), Whiskeytown Lake, and the Trinity River system.