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Aug. 24—Jurors in a coroner's inquest examining an August 2022 rafting death on the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle recommended drastic changes Thursday in hopes of preventing future fatalities.
The Youghiogheny is popular for whitewater canoeing, kayaking and rafting. Four sections of the river, varying in difficulty, are available on a predictable basis for whitewater recreation: Top Yough, near Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland ; Upper Yough, from Sang Run to Friendsville, Maryland
The Youghiogheny River is the busiest section of whitewater east of the Mississippi River. The Lower Yough, a 7-mile (11 km) run, begins at Ohiopyle Falls and ends at the Bruner Run take-out. The Middle Yough begins at the Ramcat put-in near Confluence and ends just above the falls in Ohiopyle. One weekend per year or so, there is a race and ...
Sang Run State Park is a public recreation area covering 264 acres (107 ha) in Garrett County, Maryland. [3] Focal points of the state park are a homestead, Friends Delight, that dates from the early 1800s and the historic Friends Store, which as a center of Sang Run's community life sold various staples and served as post office until the 1970s. [4]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.91 square miles (2.36 km 2), all land. [4] The Youghiogheny River flows through the town and is renowned by the whitewater kayaking/rafting community as the take-out for the famous Upper Yough run.
The Youghiogheny Scenic & Wild River is a river given special protected status by the state of Maryland. This wild and scenic portion of the Youghiogheny River is located in Western Garrett County, in Western Maryland. The Yough drains an area comprising approximately 397 square miles (1,030 km 2) in Maryland, flowing through forests and farms.
Under a 1994 agreement with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the dam is operated to control waterflows to maintain the river temperature and dissolved oxygen levels to assist downstream fisheries with the intent of increasing the number of trout [3] as well as to enable recreational whitewater activities (kayaking, canoeing, and ...
A particularly notorious undercut rock is Dimple Rock, in Dimple Rapid on the Lower Youghiogheny River, a very popular rafting and kayaking river in Pennsylvania. Of about nine people who have died at or near Dimple Rock, including three in 2000, several of the deaths were the result of people becoming entrapped after they were swept under the ...