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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Holiday Green Lake Paddle

Paddle with the Luminaria

Saturday evening, Dec 14th 2024

Come celebrate the holiday season with us at PTCC’s annual Parade of Lighted Christmas Canoes. The pathway around Green Lake will be lit up with thousands of luminaries, carolers and musicians will be filling the night air with song and we will be filling the lake with decorated canoes. We should have plenty of lights and decorations for everyone but please call early if you want to reserve a set. Some of the decoration options can be viewed in PTCC photo gallery. We want to be on the water between 6:00 and 6:30 PM. You will need to be there earlier if you want to decorate your boat and you must register on line or contact the trip coordinator no later than Thursday 12/11.

2024 Trips

We are actively adding new trips onto the Events Calendar to fill out the 2024 paddling schedule! If you are a trip coordinator, please get your trips on the calendar as soon as possible. If you would like to coordinate a trip but 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 Photo:

Upper Middle Fork, Snoqualmie River

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.