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Nantahala River
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Nantahala River

River, western North Carolina, U.S. It flows 40 mi (64 km) north through the Nantahala National Forest into the Little Tennessee River and is noted for whitewater rafting and its scenery. The Nantahala Gorge is the subject of many Cherokee legends.
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A choice of trips include: The Tuckasegee river trip, a 3½ hour journey which passes the wreck site of the movie ''The Fugitive'' and travels through Cowee Tunnel, hand dug by convicts and the Nantahala Gorge trip which crosses Fontana Lake to the Nantahala Gorge white-water rafting area.
Discover Asheville, the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky ... by Eleanor Ramsay / Travel, recreation and leisure community
It's also the location of the Nantahala Gorge and the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.
Southwestern North Carolina by Howard, Blair / Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Guide
It's the river, which crashes down through the Nantahala Gorge, that lures tens of thousands each year to the white-water rafting outfit Kennedy founded on its banks.
ESOP it to me, baby by Bailey, David / Business North Carolina
 
 
 
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