Our 2024 Bonaventure River Canoe trip is in the books! This is a June classic with great scenery, endless rapids and only a 6 hour drive from northern Maine. Canoe the Wild is accepting applications and deposits for June of 2025. See our 2025 schedule here.
The Maine moose hunting hunting season is coming up this fall, 2024. If you were the lucky winner of a moose tag on the Maine moose lottery, we can guide your moose hunt from a remote Maine moose hunting camp in WMD 1. If you drew another WMD, we can help you swap for our zone. Call Andrew Gibbs at 207-323-9713 to book your hunt or for assistance with swapping a tag if you are hunting with us.
The first of two trips this season with the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation Youth on the Allagash Program. provided free of charge for St John River Valley students. Five days and four nights. Students interviewed park rangers, learned how to handle a canoe in whitewater, explored the artifacts of the logging history, took part in camp chores including starting a fire with a spark, fire wood gathering, cooking, dishes, baking over an open fire and took on leadership roles. Students learned to leave the campsite better then they found it. We’ll be doing a 2nd trip in July.
Day trip on the St Croix River with 8th graders from East Grand School, 4 outdoor education high school student leaders, teachers and adult volunteers. The trip was made possible by the Maine Outdoor Learning Initiative grant. The outing also included a visit to an off grid home in Vanceboro were students learned about how to live off grid including raised beds gardening, capturing water for domestic and use in gardens, the process of making organic soil and a peak at an in progress, in ground green house for growing vegetables year around. We do have room on 3 day and 2 night trips on the St Croix River this summer. See our summer schedule here
17th annual East Grand Adventure Race in Danforth, Maine is directed by Dave Conley, owner of Canoe the Wild. 20 miles including a 1.5 mile compass run, 10 miles of biking and 8 miles of paddling, canoe or kayak. Nine divisions, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes. Family division skips the biking, open can be anything such as a solo or a relay team. The race is always held the 2nd Saturday of May so mark your 2025 calendar. Separate 34 mile Baskahegan Stream canoe race happens simultaneously and is Maine’s longest canoe race. Some participants attend for the purpose of conditioning for the 70 General Clinton Canoe Regatta that takes place later in the month in New York.
divisions, something for everyone! The race is always the 2nd Saturday in May.
Here is a trip that has a small window of opportunity to paddle, typically early to late May (sometimes earlier) then the water is gone. One of Maine’s finest remote canoe trips, our trip begins at the outlet of Baker Lake. Later in the trip, we’ll take on Big Black Rapids (class III) and on the last day Big Rapids (class III). No previous experience is required just good camping skills and being teachable on how to handle a canoe in moving water. We’ll be sure to help those that need it, brush up on canoeing skills and commands on the calmer parts of the trip to get you ready for these rapids. The trip from Baker Lake to the Town of Dickey is 105 miles and can be done in six days. Pictures of our 2021 trip
For more information and to sign up online for this trip. See our 2024 Schedule.
We’ll be sure to stop and visit the old Steam Shovel (BELOW) at 9 Mile. The steam shovel was instrumental in building Churchill Dam and the road into the Allagash Region from Quebec. It was over this road, then across frozen Churchill and Eagle Lakes, trains (in parts) and rails were hauled in along with supplies to erect a working village on the shores of Eagle Lake to build the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad for the purpose of moving logs from the Allagash watershed to the West Branch of the Penobscot River watershed to feed the hungry mills in Millinocket.
