First Saturday Paddle - September

First Saturday PaddleWolf River / Ghost SectionLa Grange, TN to Bateman Road BridgeSaturday, September 2, 2023. Launch Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 16:30 (approx.) Ease into Fall by joining our river guides on a trip through the premier paddling destination in West Tennessee, the “GHOST” section of the Wolf River. On this trip, you will paddle through five different environmental ecosystems. Launching into a bottomland hardwood forest, you will progress downstream through wetland forests, a cypress swamp, an open water cypress/tupelo swamp (Spirit Lake), and ending the paddle exiting through grassy wetlands. Come along and hear our river guides tell the exciting history of these swamps and the wetlands saved from destruction in 1995. Due to narrow passages, shallow waterways, and dense undergrowth, canoes or kayaks are still the only craft that can pass through these waters. Through this section, the river has been allowed to evolve naturally since it formed at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch almost 12,000 years ago.