Welcome to Paddle Trails Canoe Club
54 Years and Counting!

Located in the Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest, we paddle canoes, kayaks and inflatables. We paddle rivers, lakes and salt water. We paddle for fun, camaraderie, adrenaline, scenery and wilderness. Yep, we’re probably paddling something, somewhere right now! Paddle Trails Canoe Club (PTCC) is a supportive and inclusive community of paddlers who like to get out on water whenever we can and focus on safety and fun. We invite you to take a few minutes to explore our site and past issue of Canews, our newsletter. If you like what you see, please join us. We always welcome new members.

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2025 Paddle Trails Annual Winter Bash!

Come join us for a fun evening! Let's get together in person, celebrate and raise a toast to what we all hope will be a great 2025 paddling season. Come join us to share paddling adventures from last year, new adventures for this year and some good food and friendships. We will also be building this season's trips into our paddling Calendar so please think about what trips you'd like to coordinate. We will also have a guest speaker, an ecologist and hydrologist, who will be there with a fun and informative session. Please see the event in the Events Calendar or in the upcoming events window for details!

Saturday, February 22nd 2025 from 6:30 - 9:00 PM

2025 Trips

We are adding new trips onto the Events Calendar to fill out the remainder of the 2024 and beginning to add trips to the 2025 paddling schedules! If you are an existing trip coordinator, please get your trips on the calendar as soon as possible. If you are interested in coordinating a paddling trip for our Club but need to know how or need support, please reach out to our Trip Coordinator.

Check Out Photos From Our Events

Paddle Trails members have been busy gettin' out on the water. Check out some of the photo albums from some of our recent events, including the Introduction to Canoeing Whitewater and Fundamentals of Solo Canoeing Classes and the Black and Chehalis Rivers. Here is a link to our Photo Albums.

Canoeing Lake Whatcom from Sam Westover on YouTube.

Featured Photos:

Skagit River Eagle Float, by Patrick Clay

2020 Marked our 50th Anniversary!

Founded by a handful of enthusiastic canoeists who met at the Poodle Dog Cafe in Fife Washington in 1970, Paddle Trails has logged over 50 years of having fun in small boats. Lots has changed since then but much has also stayed the same. We still focus on fun and safety as our top priorities doing so within a great, close knit community of paddlers. In honor of our 50th year, we've just published an archive of photos we've scanned from 80 pages of a scrapbook. Most of these photos are from the 1990s and a few from early 2000s. If anyone has any from other periods we'd love for you to send them to canoe@paddletrails.org.