For those looking for an adventure when travelling with wheelchair van rentals Boston Zoar Outdoor is the place to be! This New England's Outdoor Adventure Resort, offers whitewater rafting, zip line canopy tours, kayaking, biking and rock climbing on the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts. Wheelchair can rentals Boston travellers will also be able to find onsite lodging and camping.

A little history

Zoar Outdoor was established in 1989 by Bruce Lessels, President, Karen Blom, Vice President and a third partner as the first outdoor center on the Deerfield River in Massachusetts. Since then, the company has grown to a staff of over 100. Bruce is a former member of the U.S. Whitewater Team, and Karen was a trainer for the team as well as a public health nutritionist. Zoar Outdoor is based in an historic Charlemont homestead, built in 1748 by Moses Rice, the town's first settler. The house was the boyhood home of the writer Charles Dudley Warner and it was the subject of the book "Boys of The Border" by Mary P. Wells Smith, a historic novelist.

An adventure vacation

Zoar Outdoor offers wheelchair van rental Boston travelers nationally recognized whitewater canoe and kayak school with levels of instruction for beginners to experts. You should also definitely check out their zip line canopy tour, the first zip line adventure in Southern New England. Zoar Outdoor also offers livery program with over 40 sit-on-top kayaks for self-guided trips down the easier sections of the Deerfield River. Their rafting program maintains a fleet of 18 13 foot self-bailing rafts and 9 13-foot bailer rafts to take us down the 5 different rivers we run. Zoar Outdoor's whitewater instruction clinics use over 75 of the latest canoes and kayaks to teach beginner to advanced levels.

Deerfield River

Deerfield River is a river that runs for 76 miles from southern Vermont through northwestern Massachusetts to the Connecticut River. The Deerfield has several key places for whitewater kayaking, canoeing, tubing, swimming, camping, and jumping off the cliffs (that scale upwards to about forty feet) that surround it. A spot by the Stillwater Bridge in Deerfield is a popular swimming area, where jumping off the aforementioned cliffs is condoned but not advised. There are two sections of the river for whitewater paddling: the Fife Brook section for class II and III paddlers, and the "Dryway" for class IV paddlers. In addition, there are several tributaries of the Deerfield River that provide excellent whitewater creek runs, including the class IV-V West Branch of the Deerfield in Readsboro, Vermont, the class V Dunbar Brook in Monroe, Massachusetts, the class V Pelham Brook in Rowe, Massachusetts, the class IV Cold River in Florida and Charlemont, Massachusetts, and the class III Chickley River in Hawley, Massachusetts. This is also an excellent place to go with your wheelchair van rentals Boston for trout fishery, great for fly fishing. Two sections between the Fife Brook dam and the Route 2 bridge are catch and release.

Miller River

The Millers River is a 52.1 mile long river in northern Massachusetts, originating in Ashburnham and joining the Connecticut River just downstream from Millers Falls, Massachusetts. The river was formerly known as Paquag or Baquag, a Nipmuc word meaning "clear water." When you travel with your wheelchair van rentals Boston you will find that sections of the river are used for whitewater kayaking, and a section upriver is popular with flatwater racers (canoe racing).

Before you go

For more information when you visit Zoar Outdoor with your wheelchair van rentals Boston at http://www.zoaroutdoor.com/ or call (413) 339-4010.