The Delaware River Sojourn is an annual event, begun in 1995, combining canoeing, camping, educational programs, historical interpretation and more.
Canoeists spend two or three days on each of the upper, middle, and lower sections of the River.
The Sojourn is held in June, American Rivers Month, to celebrate the diverse resources of the Delaware River. The 330 mile Delaware River and Bay is the centerpiece of a 12,765 square mile watershed located in the States of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. As major river systems go, the Delaware River Basin is a particularly small watershed - about 0.4 percent of the U.S. land area. Sixty U.S. river basins are larger, most are quite a bit larger. The largest U.S. city, New York City and the fifth largest U.S. city, Philadelphia, obtain water from the Delaware.