French Broad Riverkeeper

Join the French Broad Riverkeeper for a section paddle trip on the French Broad River! This trip will be from Redmond Dam to Barnard as an easy class II rapids section. The cost is $10 per person.

Join the French Broad Riverkeeper for a section paddle trip on the French Broad River! This trip will be from Barnard to Stackhouse and has several class III rapids. The Nantahala Outdoor Center will be guiding rafts and/or providing duckies (depending on water levels) for this section of the paddle.

Join the French Broad Riverkeeper for a section paddle trip on the French Broad River! This trip will be from Hot Springs to Paint Rock as a moderate class II rapids section. The cost is $10 per person.

Join the French Broad Riverkeeper for a section paddle trip on the French Broad River! This trip will be from Paint Rock to Del Rio as a class II/III rapids section with stretches of moderate paddling water. The cost is $10 per person.

MountainTrue is proud to welcome Mavis Staples to Asheville for a concert to benefit the French Broad River on November 13 at The Orange Peel. Mavis Staples is living, breathing history. She is an alchemist of American music, having continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and hip hop over the last 60 years, this iconic singer has seen and sung through so many changes, always rising up to meet every road. Asheville-based artist Lyric will perform with her band as the opening act and will also perform a special acoustic set at a VIP event at PULP (The Orange Peel’s lower level private club) before the show. Proceeds from the concert support the work of the French Broad Riverkeeper, a program of MountainTrue and the primary protector and defender of the French Broad River watershed.