Louis, Missouri), to Louisville, Kentucky. USA River Cruises provides opportunities for the adventure seeker and the amateur (or not so amateur) historian aboard one of our Ohio River cruises.įor example, we offer an eight-day trip from lovely little Alton, Illinois (actually on the Mississippi River not far from St. How mighty? Consider: The Ohio River is 981 miles long, flows through or borders six states, and is home to more than 25 million people - about 10 percent of the U.S.
In fact, at its confluence with the Mississippi, the Ohio (Seneca for “good river”) is considerably more mighty than the mighty Mississippi itself!