Hill’s family reached out to the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology, who examined the canoe and decided to remove it from the muck. “This canoe is about 1,000 years old,” State ...

This is not a definitive list. There are too many gorgeous places to paddle and not enough time, but these North American canoe trips are a good place to start. A canoe trip is flexible.

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ocean. By 1500 B.C., these voyagers began moving east beyond New Guinea, first along the ...