Our river has many large rocks and only small canoes and kayaks can safely pass. Every once in a while we get a flood where many trees get taken down river. The tree in this photo has probably been taken down river and gotten stuck here during the last flood of 1996. The Potomac is wide and slow in spots and fast and rocky in others. Many Olympic Kayakers train on the Potomac River.
Peepers are small tree climbing frogs that live near the river.
They get their name from the sound they make Mallard ducks are often seen on the river. The male has beautiful colors. We studied the rivers that flow into the Potomac. This map shows all of the rivers that flow into the Potomac River.