Area paddlers can disappear into a mystical, magical swamp that's close to home. That is, when conditions are right.

In April 1994, genocidal killings began in Rwanda that resulted in the deaths of nearly a million people. A decade later, under a new program aimed at turning Rwanda's swampy lowlands into rice ...

Just over a ridge west of Fairbanks, Minto Flats is an oval of swampy lowlands larger than Anchorage. The flats are a quiet expanse that has for longer than anyone’s memory produced moose, ...

High water levels at Beaver Lake create a swamp environment on the War Eagle River arm of the lake, two miles downstream from War Eagle Mill. Exploring by canoe or kayak is an ideal way to see it.