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Teams of paddlers are commemorating the 200th anniversary of David Thompson’s exploration of western Canada by retracing the 19th Century explorer’s route in 25-foot-long north canoes. The teams have been on the trail for a week in what they intend to be a 63-day, 2,200 mile trip. Dubbed the Thompson Brigade, the reenactors plan to […]

Canoeing.com invites you to crawl into our new Tents section! We’ve just expanded our Gear Guide to include information on the tents you’ll likely be interested in for your next canoe-based expedition or weekend on the water. In all, we’ve cataloged nearly 300 tents, tarps, and shelters. A special feature of the new section is […]

  Like a canoe that tracks straight and maneuvers well, Ken Madsen and Peter Mather’s A Guide to Paddling in the Yukon is a fine book for two reasons: it’s a helpful guidebook for canoeing and kayaking in the Yukon territory and it’s a worthy “coffee table book” thanks to its striking collection of color […]

Inspired by the Caldicott Award-winning book and Oscar-nominated film Paddle to the Sea, Jody Smith’s students at Cheery Creek public school in Marquette, Michigan often launched carved boats with their initials onto the water of Lake Superior. Like author Holling C. Holling’s young carver in the story, they hoped their boats would travel far and […]

“Throwing water balloons at Naples canoe race could result in charges.” The headline piqued our curiosity. The three paragraph Naples Daily News story that followed, HERE, warned that if injuries occurred at this Saturday’s Great Dock Canoe Race as a result of a thrown water balloon, criminal charges could be filed. The story left, for […]

Listening Point, the lake-shore property near Ely, Minnesota owned by nature writer and paddler Sigurd Olson, has just been added to the National Register of Historic Places, according to THIS news story. The rugged 30-acre property on Burntside Lake is currently owned by the Listening Point Foundation. Olson, who is well-known to paddlers and nature […]

The only prehistoric sea-going canoe ever found in Florida continues to rest in the muck of Weedon Island near St. Petersburg, as it has for a long, long time. According to THIS Suncoast News story, the buried relic was once a 45-foot-long canoe that allowed the local Native American culture that carved the boat to ply the coastal […]

It’s been 78 years since Eric Sevareid and Walter Port pushed their 18-foot cruiser canoe off the Mississippi River’s banks in Minneapolis and into the waters that would ultimately take them to Hudson’s Bay. On the trip, famously recounted in Sevareid’s book Canoeing with the Cree, the newly-minted high school graduates paddled some 2,200 miles from […]