PADDLING Locations

Launches

• Dangerous Launches
• Worldwide Launch Sites - find/rate recorded sites and add new ones in the launch site map
• Tillamook Estuaries Launches, Water Quality, etc
• Scappoose Bay/Creek
• Washington State Boat Access sites
• Oregon State Boat Access sites
• Boat Oregon Online Maps

Northwest Ferry System

• Washington Ferries
• BC Ferries
• Coho Ferry between Port Angeles and Victoria

Rough Ideas

In 2016, every 2 months Don Durheim posted a list of trips that have historically been done during that time.   Well, here is all the trips he mentioned, sorted alphabetically, to use as ideas.  Also see Phil's book.   Thanks Don!

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• Aldrich Point - Level 2 (16 miles)
• Aldrich Point to Knappa Dock  - Level 1 or 2 (wind?) (6 miles)
• Aldrich Point to Lark Island  -  Rating IIC (11 miles)
• Alsea Bay & River -  Level 2 (14 miles)
• Anderson Island Circumnavigation - Level 3 (13 miles)
• Anderson Island to Nisqually  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Astoria Waterfront - John Day Ramp to West End Mooring Basin - Level 2 (9 miles)
• Bachelor Island  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Bachelor Island Circumnavigation  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Bainbridge Island - Level 3 (10 miles)
• Bainbridge Island / Fay-Bainbridge State Park  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Beacon Rock to Steamboat Landing, Washougal  -  Level 2 (18 miles)
• Beacon Rock to Washougal  -  Level 2/3 (18 miles)
• Beaver Slough - Wallace Island  -   Level 2 (10 miles)
• Bend Area Camping Week-End - Levels 1 & 2
• Bernart Landing to Willow Island - Level 1 (8 miles)
• Black River - Level 1 (10 miles)
• Blue Moon Paddle (Ross Island)  -  Level 1 (6 miles)
• Bonneville Dam to Fort Clatsop  -  Level 2 (6 days-120 miles)
• Bonneville to St. Cloud  -  Level 2 (8-10 miles)
• Boston Harbor & Dana Passage  -  Level 3 (up to 15 miles)
• Browns Landing to St Helens  -  Level 2 (13 miles)
• Cascade Locks to Stevenson   -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• Cathedral Park/Swan Island Lagoon  -  Level 1 (7 miles)
• Cathlamet Bay - John Day River, Lois and Mott Islands – Level 2 (10 miles)
• Cathlamet to Skamokawa   -  Level 1 (6-7 miles)
• Cathlamet Waterfalls Tour - Level 2 (10 miles)
• Cedar Oak to Sellwood Park  -  Level 1 (7 miles)
• Champoeg Park to Mollalla River  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Clatskanie-Wallace Island - Level 2 (10 miles)
• Coldwater Lake (Mt. St. Helens)  -  Level 1 (6 miles)
• Columbia City to Prescott Beach  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Cottonwood Beach / Reed Island Circumnavigation  -  Level 1 (6 miles)
• Cowlitz River:  Castle Rock to Longview  -  Level 2 (16 miles)
• Cowlitz River:  Vader to Castle Rock to Longview  -  Level 2 (13 miles)
• Crims & Gull Islands - Level 2 (10 miles)
• Crims Island Circumnavigation -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Cunningham Slough  -  Level 1 or 2 ( up to 10 miles)
• Dalton Point /Cape Horn / Rooster Rock  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Dalton Point to Chinook Landing  -  Level 2 (16 miles)
• Downtown Portland Evening  -  Level 1 (7 miles)
• Eagle Creek to Cascade Locks  -  Level 2 (7 miles)
• Eagle Creek to Herman Creek   -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• East Fork of Lewis River -  Level 1 (8-10 miles)
• Elochoman River  -  Level 1 (8 miles)
• Frenchman’s Bar to Ridgefield - Level 2 (8 miles)
• George Rogers Park to Cedar Island  -  Level 1 (5 miles)
• George Rogers Park to Elk Rock Island  -  Level 1 (5 miles)
• Gilbert River / Sturgeon Lake -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Goat Island  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Great Willamette Clean-Up at Cathedral Park - Level 1
• Gull Island Camp-Out  -  Level 2 (8-10 miles)
• Hammersley Flush  -  Rating 3 (15 miles)
• Hammersley Inlet / Hope Island camping  -  Level 2 (10-12 miles)
• Hebb Park to Bernert Landing -  Level 1 (6-7 miles)
• Hebb Park to Willamette Park  -  Level 1 (7 miles)
• Home Valley Park  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Hood Canal:  Potlatch State Park to Twanoh State Park  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Hope & Squaxin Islands  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Knappa / Blind Slough  -  Level 1 (4-6 miles)
• Knappa Dock - Karlson Island  -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• Knappa Slough   -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Knappa to Marsh & Karlson Islands   -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Lacamas Lake – Level 1 (8 miles)
• Lake Billy Chinook Week-End – Levels 1 & 2
• Lake River and Salmon Creek  -  Level 1/2 (6-11 miles)
• Lake River Moonlight Paddle (Felida / Salmon Creek)  -  Level 1 (6 miles)
• Lake Umatilla, John Day Arm  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Lewis River - Woodland to Ridgefield  -  Level 2 (11 miles)
• Lewis River/Merwin Dam (Ariel) to Woodland - Level 2/3 (8 miles)
• Little Skookum Inlet  -  Level 3 (10 miles)
• Long Island (Willapa Bay)  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Lord and Walker Islands -  Level 2 (7-9 miles)
• Mayfield Lake - Dunn Canyon  -   Level 2 (11 miles)
• McNary Lake / Gilbert River - Level 1 (10 miles)
• McNary Lake / Gilbert River (GPS Practice)  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Merwin Dam to Woodland Bridge  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Merwin Lake  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Nehalem Bay  -  Level 2 (10-12 miles)
• Nestucca River/Bay  -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• Nisqually Wildlife Refuge  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Oswego City Park to Elk Rock  -  Level 1 (4 miles)
• Pixie Park to Goat Island  -  Level 1 (7 miles)
• Pixie Park to Goble  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Prescott Beach to Sandy Island  -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• Price Island  -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• Price Island / Steamboat Slough  -  Level 1 (4 miles)
• Puget Island Circumnavigation  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Reed Island Circumnavigation  -  Level 2 (8 miles))
• Ridgefield / Lewis River -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Ridgefield to Warrior Rock  -  Level 2 (11-12 miles)
• River Mill Lake  -  Level 1 (6-7 miles)
• Rogers Landing to Boones Ferry  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Rooster Rock to Cape Horn  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Rooster Rock to Multnomah Falls  -  Level 2 (13.5 miles)
• Ross Island - Level 1 (7 miles)
• Salmon Creek  -  Levels 1 & 2 (6-11 miles)
• Salmon River  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• San Salvador to Wheatland Ferry  -  Level 2 (13 miles)
• Sandy Island  -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• Sandy River & Lady Island  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Santiam & Willamette Rivers  -  Level 2 (16 miles)
• Santiam to Independence  -  Level 2 (18 miles)
• Scappoose Bay and Warrior Rock  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Sellwood Bridge to St. John’s Cathedral Park
• Sequim Bay/Dungeness Spit - level 2 (8-10 miles)
• Siletz River & Siletz Bay - Strome Park to Drift Creek - Level 2 (14 miles)
• Siletz River: Hee Hee Illahee Park to Old Mill Park  -  Level 1 (5 Miles)
• Siletz River: Morgan Park to Strom Park  -  Level 2 (10 Miles)
• Siletz River: Ojalla Bridge to Morgan Park  -  Level 1 (7 Miles)
• Skamokawa Creek  -  Level 1 (5-6 miles)
• Skamokawa to Aldrich Point  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Skamokawa to Cathlamet  -  Level 1 (7 miles)
• Skamokawa to Jim Crow Point  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Skamokawa to Pillar Rock  -  Level 2 (12 miles)
• Smith and Bybee Lakes  -  Level 1 (6-9 miles)
• South Slough (Charleston to Hinch Lane)  -  Level 1 (8 miles)
• Squaxin Island Circumnavigation  -  Level 2 (11 miles)
• St Cloud Park to Washougal  -  Level 2 (13 miles)
• St. Cloud to Washougal  -  Level 2 (13 miles)
• St. Helens to Goat Island  -  Level 2 (9 miles)
• St. Helens to Prescott Beach – Level 2 (15 miles)
• Steamboat Landing / Reed Island Circumnavigation  -  Level 2 (8 miles)
• Steamboat Landing to Wintler Park - Level 2 (8 miles)
• Sturgeon Lake  -  Level 1/2 (6-12 miles)
• Swift Reservoir Camp-Out  -  Levels 1 & 2 (6-12 miles)
• Tenasillahe Island  -  Level 2 (11 miles)
• Tillamook Bay – Bayocean Spit  -  Level 2 (8-14 miles)
• Tillamook Bay – Kilches River  -  Level 2 (11 miles)
• Timothy Lake  -  Level 1 (4-6 miles)
• Up the Willamette (after turkey day) - Level 1 (8+ miles)
• Vancouver Lake / Lake River  -  Level 1 (6-7 miles)
• Viento Park to Hood River  -  Level 2-3 (9-14 miles)
• Waikiki Beach - Level 4 (8 miles)
• Wallace Island  -  Level 2 (9-13 miles)
• Warrior Rock and Bachelor Island  -  Level 2 (11 miles)
• Washougal to Vancouver  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Welch Island Circumnavigation - Level 2 (10 miles)
• Willamette Park to Cathedral Park  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Willamette Park to the Narrows (Rock Islands)  -  Level 1 (6 miles)
• Willamette Park to Willow Island  -  Level 1 (8 miles)
• Willow Grove - Crims & Gull Island Circum. - Level 2 (9 miles)
• Willow Island  -  Level 2 (10 miles)
• Woodland to Ridgefield  -  Level 1 (9 miles)
• Yale Lake  -  Level 2 (6-12 miles)
• Yale Lake/ Siouxon Creek - Level 2 (8 or 12 miles)