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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SAVE THE DATE!!!

PTCC Fall Bash and Annual Meeting
Saturday, October 26th

Shoreline Unitarian Church
14724 1st Ave NE, Shoreline, WA 98155
6:30-9:00 p.m.
(members are kindly requested to attend)

Come and get together with all of your paddling friends and share food and stories of paddling adventures from this past year and plan for fall paddling! It's a great way to meet new and old club members. As always, we’ll have a great potluck dinner (please bring a dish to share) with beverages supplied by the club. There will be a gear swap, cookie awards and elections for next year's board.

If you have pictures of a paddling trip you would like to share, please let us know at canoe@paddletrails.org. Halloween costumes are highly encouraged. So, bring your favorite potluck dish, and if you prefer, your own plates, glassware, and flatware to reduce waste. Contact the event coordinator if you have any questions.

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.