I Love Paddling

Fair Warning: This post will span the globe from England to Ontario to the Far North. It will also mention art, outfitting, canoe museums, the British Royal Family, a friend of ours, and a woman cooking a meal in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. So … we read recently, HERE, that a potter named Allan Pace […]

In Canoeing.com’s on-going effort to be “Your Ultimate Guide” for all things canoeing, we’ve just added sleeping bags to our Gear Guide section. Now, along with information on canoes, paddles, and portage packs you can find details to choose the ideal sleeping bag for your next trip. We’ve got information on hundreds of bags organized […]

Canadian artist Tom Thomson died more than 90 years ago. His empty canoe was found floating upside-down on a lake in Ontario’s Algonquin Park on July 8, 1917. The “Group of Seven” painter’s body surfaced later in the week. The death, which has long been shrouded in mystery, is now a subject of study on […]

Has paddling downstream gotten a little old for you? Is paddling slowly just too, well, slow? Hankering for a portage that’s seven miles long? If so, the Bushwhacker Challenge on Michigan’s Pine and Chippewa Rivers might be just the change of pace you’re looking for. Held in honor of uber-paddler Verlen Kruger — and to […]

Let’s just let the picture speak its thousand words … Click HERE to see Shuhei Ogawara’s canoe made from the 7,382 chopsticks he collected from his office cafeteria. The boat should float equally well on water or soy sauce.

While a prevailing theory holds that humans initially populated North America by walking from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge, a canoe appears to help confirm the route. The word “canoe,” that is. Edward Vajda, a linguistics professor at Western Washington University, has found similarities between the word for canoe in the ancient Ket language of Siberia and in the […]

Figuring the first day of April was a good day to break the news — or kick-off a new marketing campaign — the Ely, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce announced that Canada intends to purchase the small northern Minnesota town which is a gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. You can read the media announcement HERE. The […]

If you made a back-of-an-envelope list of premier North American paddling destinations, we’re guessing New York City wouldn’t exactly top the list. But now, with the launch by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation of a 28 landing canoe and kayak “Water Trail” around the five boroughs of New York City, you […]