How fit do I have to be to participate?

The simple answer is “YES” you need to be reasonably fit to take a raft trip. One of our raft trips, EasyWater Rafting, is well-suited to those people who may not be as fit as they would like to be. It is still a raft trip, you’ll still enjoy nice rapids, but they’re...

How many people fit in a raft?

We want you to have an excellent rafting experience here at JTRA. We take 4-6 in a raft on the EasyWater rafting section. We take 6 in a raft on the Whitewater rafting trips on the upper and lower gorge.

Is rafting a good activity to do with kids?

You’ll get a big YES! answer out of us on this one. Kids just totally unwind when you put them in a raft on a beautiful river! It may seem nearly impossible to distract young ones from their electronic device world, yet every day we see the magic of the Lehigh River...

What is a “dam release”?

Water Releases happen every single minute of every single day! Water always flows through the Francis Walter Dam that controls the Lehigh River. If the water wasn’t’ flowing all the time aquatic life would suffer – and the trout would complain! That’s why we can...
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