Description: Small-ship cruises on America’s rivers: Mississippi, Columbia & Snake, Hudson, Ohio, Tennessee, Great Lakes and the Intracoastal, and the lines sailing them now.
The Mississippi, the Columbia, the Hudson, the Great Lakes and more — no passport, no jet lag, and a ship small enough to dock on Main Street.
You don’t need a passport, a long-haul flight or a foreign language to take a river cruise. The United States has some of the most interesting cruising water in the world — the Mississippi’s blues-and-bayou south, the gorges and dams of the Columbia, the mansions of the Hudson Valley, the Civil War and music country of the Tennessee and Cumberland, the inland seas of the Great Lakes and the marsh-lined Intracoastal Waterway. All of it is sailed by small ships that tie up in town, where a big ocean ship coul
New Orleans to Memphis on the Lower river; St. Louis to St. Paul on the Upper. Paddlewheelers and modern riverboats.