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 ...

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 ...

After the paddling source-to-sea on the Mississippi River and thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, the mom of 15 sets her sights on new expeditions Nikki Bettis, a single mom of 15 biological children, ...

In Tennessee, three iconic rivers and the culture around them have shaped generations of paddlers and keep them coming back Whitewater paddling is the bedrock of adventure tourism in East Tennessee, ...

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 ...

The Crooked River is a small, relatively unknown river in western Maine. Adventure photographer Andy Gagne had lived near the Crooked River for 10 years, paddling and fishing its waters regularly. But ...

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 ...

As a whitewater rescue instructor, I have seen both the power and the dangers of attaching to a rope with a quick-release harness. When used effectively, it can be an essential part of a whitewater ...

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.

If you’ve been browsing Netflix recently, you might have noticed an uncommon sight: a film featuring whitewater kayaking trending number one among English films, with 40 million views just two weeks ...

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 ...