The answer to your inquire really depends on what you are looking for.

You could probably find a spot near the Betsy Ross Bridge where you could put in,
allowing you to float down river under the Ben Franklin Bridge, past Penn's
Landing and the lovely city of Philadelphia to the west and The New Jersey
Aquarium and the lovely city of Camden, NJ to the east, and then continue on (if
you haven't been hit by anything and if the pollutants haven't destroyed your
tube) until you get to the Walt Whitman Bridge where perhaps you could find a take
out point that would allow easy access for your return home (or the opportunity to
seek medical attention).  I can guarantee that you will not see hoards of
outfitter tubers on that stretch!

But perhaps you are more interested in the upper and middle Delaware.  ;^)

Many (many!) years ago we took a trip with Kittatinny Canoes outfitters out of
Dingmans Ferry, PA when we floated the middle Delaware.  They took us up to Port
Jervis, NY where we put in at a public park as I recall.  We floated most of the
day back to the Dingmans Ferry area to be picked up on the PA side (don't remember
where exactly or if it was public or private).  That section of river as I recall
had mostly riffles and flat water with a leisurely current.

That section of the river has been included in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers
System as the Middle Delaware Scenic and Recreational River and flows through the
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
(see http://www.nps.gov/dewa/index.htm for more info)

For information on this section of the river see:
http://www.nps.gov/dewa/delriver.html

For a river guide page see:
http://www.nps.gov/dewa/expriver.htm

For river access point info see:
http://www.nps.gov/dewa/exprivac.htm

A commercial web page that has some good information on the lower section of the
Delaware Water Gap area can be found at
http://www.adventuresport.com/maphome.html

The upper Delaware is also designated a Scenic and Recreational River as part of
the National Park Services National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and contains a
few more challenging sections with class I and II rapids.

For some good planning information see:
http://www.nps.gov/upde/rivtrip.htm

For river access points see:
http://www.nps.gov/upde/accesses.htm

A commercial web page that has a few maps of the upper Delaware can be found at:
http://www.whitewaterwillies.com/river_trips.htm

To keep this on a historic note, the Roebling Bridge John referred to is said to
be the oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States and was built
in 1847 as an aqueduct that carried the Delaware and Hudson Canal over the upper
Delaware near Lackawaxen, PA and Minisink Ford, NY
(see http://www.nps.gov/upde/roebaque.htm for more information)

Have a great trip but watch out for those submerged rocks, they can get you where
it really hurts,
Signed,
Tubby the Tuber



John Callan wrote:

> Went canoing on the Delaware a few years ago.  Lots of wild life.  Mostly
> from
> NYC.
>
> Don't know a good place for tubing...but there's a great bridge that's worth
> seeing...Roebling I believe.
>
> -jc
>
> Met History wrote:
>
> > I want to go tubing on the Delware River this weekend, but don't want to go
>
> > with the 80-people-on-a-schoolbus-outfitters.  We have our own tubes - does
>
> > anyone have a good put-in/take-out point?
> >
> > Best,  Christopher Gray