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Fact Sheets for Illinois Rivers

The IPC has begun this Fact Sheet initiative to provide paddlers with the information that can help them get started paddling a variety of Illinois. Please visit this page often as we intend to grow this resource as we move forward and if you’d like to suggest a river or even develop a Fact Sheet yourself for a river you love, please let us know. We’d love to have your input!

Click on any of Illinois’ paddleable waterways below to open a short fact sheet for each with relevant information for paddlers about the waterway, paddler’s access, recommended places to paddle, links to more resources for each and maps that can help to get you there!

NORTHEAST ILLINOIS

Lake Michigan

Busse Lake

Chicago River

Skokie Lagoons

Des Plaines River

Calumet River Water Trail

Fox River

NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

Rock River Waterway

Illinois River

EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

Sangamon River East Central Illinois

Middle Fork of the Vermilion River

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

Cache River