Union Canal Canoe Rentals

Swatara Creek Water Trail

RIVER MILE 14: Along Black's Bridge Road you will find Union Canal Canoe Rentals, owned by Bill and Ruth Wise.  As the business name suggests, you can rent canoes.  In addition, you can camp, golf or explore an old canal lock.  At Halloween, there's even a haunted trail.  For real hospitality, call (717) 838-9580.

The Union Canal Canoe Rentals is a 33.69-acre parcel along the Swatara Creek at 1929 Blacks Bridge Road, Annville (East Hanover Township, Lebanon County PA).  In addition to a boat access, the site contains a 960 square foot pavilion; a 240 square foot stilted office with both a 200 Amp electrical service and a 120 square foot porch anchored on 3’6” concrete pilings below the frost line; an approved public water source with a flow rate of 25 gallons per minute at the pump house; an 18-hole chip and putt golf course; camping; and a riparian buffer that shades and cools the Swatara, slows evaporation, and limits runoff and erosion.  Because we start or end our sojourn and River cleanup at this site each year, SCWA considers this site an essential hub in the wheel of the Water Trail, important to Lebanon and Dauphin Counties, the State of Pennsylvania, and the nation.  A long-term goal is to become part of an inter-county trail system that could link to the proposed north-south rail-trail and east-west rail-trail linking Berks, Dauphin, Lebanon, and Schuylkill counties.

For the complete DCNR Trail Guide, click here: http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Fish_Boat/watertrails/swatara/trailguide.htm

For the official DCNR Trail Map, click here: http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Fish_Boat/watertrails/swatara/trailmap.htm 

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