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White Water Rafting in Ohiopyle Pennsylvania

Welcome to the Laurel Highlands

Celebrating our 46th Year of Excellence of Whitewater Rafting in Ohiopyle

Laurel Highlands River Tours & Outdoor Center welcomes you to our outdoor home. Family-owned and operated by your hosts, Linda and Mark McCarty, our company invites you to experience white water rafting at an adventure vacation level created just for you. Through millions of river miles shared with guests, Laurel Highlands River Tours and Outdoor Center helped develop today's white water rafting sport. Ralph McCarty, one of the pioneer river runners in the East, best summed up the balance between the river trip and nature when he said that rafting was the only sport he was aware of that not even a footprint is left behind.

Choosing Laurel Highlands River Tours means choosing 45 years of commercial rafting experience and a staff with a common goal, to offer you the best outdoor recreation day possible. Your guides are our company. White water raft with some of the most accomplished river guides on the East Coast. Our staff that has over 350 years of combined river experience. These guides are trained by Bob Stover, who helped develop the longest running and most complete, state certified, guide training program in the East.

The 20,000 acres of Ohiopyle State Park and the westernmost ridges of the Appalachian Mountains are our home and we'd like to share it with you. Choose white water rafting and one of our expanded opportunities to enjoy this invigorating environment. Raft, hike, bike, climb and relax with us as we explore this magnificent country. Stay a day or a week. You will want to return and explore all the activities that are available.

The ultimate family float trip is how most refer to the Middle Yough. Its calm and scenic Class I and II rapids are gentle enough for the young and enjoyable enough for the young at heart. Stemming from our success with the Family Focus Trips last year, we have now incorporated that format into all of our Middle Yough trips.

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Excitement for everyone from the novice to the white water veteran describes the Lower Yough in Ohiopyle, PA. The Lower's Class III and IV rapids will challenge and excite, but not intimidate even the novice rafters. We are able to accommodate a variety of group sizes.

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The ever changing conditions on the largest free flowing Class IV - V rivers in the East will bring a new challenge every time you experience the mighty Cheat River. All of our trips now have a guide in each raft to give you personal instruction on how to navigate this awesome river.

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With one section dropping over 115 feet per mile, the Upper Yough can be considered the ULTIMATE CHALLENGE! We use a specially designed self-bailing four-person raft that has added foot stirrups to help you tackle this technical Class IV-V river. Guides will be in each raft to assist you in meeting the challenges of nature's most powerful elements.

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