Canoeing
Trip Reports

Can you help fill in the blanks or do you have an alternate meaning of a river listed. Add a river or creek we missed and share your knowledge of Ohio with us. Let's keep the past alive!

St. Marys-

Sandusky- or Sa-un-dus-tee, Wyandot for "Water within pools".

Scioto- Wyandot Indian word for "Deer"

Stillwater-

Stonelick-

Sunday Creek- The name derives, as the story goes, from early surveyors who reached the creek on a Sunday, and so named it after the day of discovery.

Tiffin- Edward Tiffin, 1st governor of Ohio

Tuscarawas- Indian for "open mouth"

Vermilion- Vermilion native says that river has to do with the color of the clay on the banks of sections of the river. The Indians named it and he has seen the Vermilion colored clay from a canoe. He says it is not bright red, but red nevertheless. He also thought the Indians used it to paint their faces.

Walhonding- Indian for "White woman creek"