Acouple’s leisurely sea kayak on British Columbia’s south coast took a dramatic turn when conditions changed in the afternoon ...

The paddlesports industry’s transition away from PFAS is underway, and for Stig Larsson of Level Six and Ted Keyes of Kokatat ...

Two kayakers paddled across Intermediate Lake on Isle Royale on a sunny September day, expecting to see only moose. Instead, the pair stumbled across backpacker Craig Berg, who had been lost on the ...

I was an innocent backpacker until the day friends showed me strange little boats that let them extend their hikes across rivers and lakes. At first, their packrafts looked to me like glorified pool ...

Razor Kayaks is the vision of founder Rob Fallon, a self-described “kayak tragic” with a dozen recreational boats lying around, who wanted to create something he actually enjoyed paddling. The ...

Three days after Matt Wappett finished a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon, he landed in the emergency room with a massive knee infection. While it improved with the help of antibiotics, Wappett’s ...

Along the jigsawed border between North Carolina and Tennessee, the Nolichucky River cuts a nearly 3,000-foot gorge through the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains that exits at the outdoor community ...

Not everyone is programmed to chill when the time comes to slip out on the water. Some of us are on the hunt to cover miles or get our heart rate up. Personally, I have a difficult time going ...

Just across the Ottawa River lies a sprawling labyrinth of deep bays, wild islands, hidden passages, interconnected lakes and spectacular whitewater. Scenic and unspoiled, Québec’s Kipawa region in ...

Sometimes, Paddling Magazine gets one of the very first production boats out of the molds. There are NASA-like logistics to get a still-warm hull onto a trailer headed to some river put-in somewhere.

The sky was still dark on a Sunday morning in late March when I set my new solo canoe on the surface of the Mississippi River. I’d been thinking about this moment for years, dreaming of all the places ...

Rescue crews responded 12 minutes after the Marin County Fire Department relayed reports of two people in the water. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office reported that the rescue crew found the man and ...