Paddling near Evansville, IN

Sitting on the Ohio River near mile 793 in Vanderburgh County, Evansville anchors a paddling scene that runs from big-river miles to bayou-like backwaters. Pigeon Creek winds through the city itself, while within an hour's drive you'll find the cypress-studded oxbow at Hovey Lake, the flatwater corridor of the Wabash River at Harmonie State Park, and the bottomland wetlands of the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge.