Paddling Northern Wisconsin

Mike Svob’s Paddling Northern Wisconsin is known in Wisconsin paddling circles as “the bible.” For anyone paddling rivers in northern Wisconsin, this guidebook is an important resource. Since there is a lot more whitewater in northern Wisconsin, a good portion of the content in this book details the rapids and other features of Wisconsin’s premiere whitewater. Excellent maps include enough road details to understand shuttle routes. One thing the reader should be aware of is that Svob’s mileage information tends to be anywhere from 10 to 20% low compared to what most paddlers get on their GPS tracks. We assume that is because that information was walked off with map dividers in the pre-GPS era. The straighter the river, the more accurate the mileage tends to be.