• Betsy Mayers' Paddling Asheville:  28 Gently Exciting Regional River Trips.  A very well done guide for those interested in paddling class I-II in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.

• Bob and David Benner's Carolina Whitewater:  A Canoeist's Guide to the Western Carolinas.  Exhaustive guide to all but the most cutting edge whitewater in Western North and South Carolina.

• Monte Smith's Southeastern Whitewater:  Fifty of the Best River Trips from Alabama to West Virginia.  An excellent resource for assessing relative difficulty.  Does a good job describing fifty of the southeast's classic whitewater trips.

• Monte Smith's A Paddler's Guide to the Obed/Emory Watershed.  Replicates much, but not all, of the information included in Southeastern Whitewater:  Fifty of the Best River Trips from Alabama to West Virginia.

• Kelly Fischer's A Playboater's Guide to the Ocoee River.  An entire guide devoted to a single river!  The link above will take you to an excerpt describing Entrance Rapid.

• Kelly Fischer's Playboating the Nantahala River.  Yet  another guide devoted to a single river!

• James Bannon and Morrison Giffen's Sea Kayaking the Carolinas.  Detailed descriptions of 70 trips in 40 different areas.  Includes maps, directions, boat launch sites, and camping for each area.

• William Neely's Whitewater Home Companion:  Southeastern Rivers, Volume I.  Somewhat dated classic.  Great cartoons, limited number of Asheville area rivers and creeks.

• Bob Sehlinger, et al's Appalachian Whitewater:  The Southern States.  Another classic.  Limited number of Asheville area rivers and creeks.

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