New Orleans' own Steamboat Natchez is in Cincinnati for America's River Roots Festival. The iconic vessel may cruise the Mississippi, but one of its most prominent features hails from the Queen City.

On first sight, the American Duchess charmed me with her white, wedding-cake exterior adorned with gingerbread trim. The big, red paddle wheel on the back paid tribute to her steamboat lineage, a ...

A paddlewheel steamboat called the E. Rutledge was once used to tow log rafts on the Chippewa River during the lumbering era. As the lumber industry prospered, it became more difficult for the ...

Steamboat Washington was the first double-decker steamboat, and its arrival in New Orleans completed its maiden voyage down ...

TAVARES — The latest tourist attraction coming to the Tavares waterfront is a hallmark of a bygone era that soon will be chugging along Lake Dora. The City Council has signed off on a lease agreement, ...

The long-lost paddle wheels from a steamboat shipwreck in 1819 were discovered deep in the waters of Lake Champlain in Vermont. Avocational diver Gary Lefebvre and his wife Ellen of Colchester, ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — When Dan Brabec first rolled into Steamboat Springs in the 1990s it seemed that everyone had a Wave Sport kayak on their car or in their garage. As a Wave Sport-sponsored ...

The Belle of Louisville, which is docked in Cincinnati for America's River Roots Festival, has a haunting past.

Two Belles and a Duchess will battle for bragging rights next month when the Great Steamboat Race takes place in Louisville, Ky., during the Kentucky Derby Festival. The two-week annual festival with ...

SAN ANGELO — The Tule Princess Steamboat came out of Lake Nasworthy for the first time in six years for repairs and a new paint job. On Thursday, July 2, 2020, the steamboat came out of the lake to ...