We run the Nantahala River exclusively because they think it's ideal - for kids, adults, even beginners. Join them and let them make your trip down the Nantahala the highlight of your visit to the Great Smoky Mountains. You don't need experience to take a guided raft trip with them. Their professional guides, among the industry's best and most experienced, will accompany each guided trip. Their fully-guided trip guarantees that one of their experts will be in your raft.