Scenic North America Canoe Trips
Discover the top North America canoe trips with some scenic wilderness adventure that is gentle enough for beginners and a challenge for experts..
The best scenic North America canoe trips include trips to the upper reaches of Canada and Alaska where you can experience snow capped mountains, grizzly bears, and moose, and the western USA, with beautiful mountain scenery and wildlife, and further down to the southern USA with a calm scenic trip to a swamp.
Best North America Canoe Trips
This river meanders at a relaxed paced to reflect on the Yukon's awesome scenery. The Yukon River is fourth longest river in North America is the river with the longest salmon run in the world and was a waterway route to the world famous Klondike Gold Rush. Over half of the river lies in Alaska with the other segment of the river near the source located in British Columbia. The Pelly River is fast flowing but manageable for most paddlers.
Suggested trip
Ruby Range Adventure
Where To Stay
Whitehorse-Yukon, Canada Hotels - Reviews/booking
Bowron Lake Provincial Park is a large wilderness area situated on the western slopes of the Cariboo Mountain Range. The world-renowned Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit encompasses a 116 km chain of lakes, waterways and connecting portages. This wilderness canoe trip takes from 6 to 10 days to complete, depending on your time frame and skill level. For those looking for a shorter trip, the west side of the circuit can be paddled in 2 to 4 days. It is recommended that those who attempt the circuit have some wilderness canoeing experience.
Suggested trip
Pathways - Bowron Lakes
Where To Stay
Bowron Lake Lodge - Reviews/booking
The Green River is one of the most fabulous, scenic calm canoe trips in the American West. The Green river runs through Stillwater Canyon in Utah's famous Canyon lands country. The trip is great for families and memory-building and for those looking to enjoy evenings camping on the river shore after long day canoeing on a calm stretch of river. This beautiful river meanders through Canyon lands National Park and ultimately connecting with the Colorado River. The scenic beauty includes red rock formations, ruins, and rock art sites of Ancient Pueblo Indians. This is a flat water river in a very remote part of the southwest.
Suggested trip
Moab Rafting
Where To Stay
Red Cliffs Lodge
Moab, UT
This 110 room lodge is nestled along Scenic Byway 128 and the Colorado River. The ranch offers deluxe accommodations with individual private patios each facing the river. New cabins with fireplaces, two bedrooms, high speed internet, all with spectacular views of White's Rapid and 2,000 ft towering red cliffs
The "Allagash" has been praised and enjoyed as a spectacular sportsman's paradise. It is a magnificent, 92 mile long ribbon of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams winding through the heart of northern Maine's vast commercial forests. Paddlers can experience a variety of attractions including ice caves, locomotives at Eagle Lake or Allagash Falls. With many access points you can choose a trip length and river section that fits your paddling style
Suggested trip
Allagash Canoe Trips
Places to stay
Eagle Lake, Maine Hotels - Reviews/booking
The Bog River is a good flat river created by two dams that offer a gentle paddling route without white water and further enjoyed by a ban on motorboats. There are 14.5 miles of relatively calm waters with portage area. This scenic trip features many beaver dams around High Falls, and the many large nesting loons. Primary access to the area is near Tupper Lake from a short gravel road off State Route 421 to Lows Lower Dam, where a canoe may be launched. Another canoe access point is available at Horseshoe Lake. Campsites are available.
Suggested Trip
Raquette River Outfitters
Where To Stay
Pine Terrace Motel & Resort
|Tupper Lake, NY
This 5 room motel is locate next to Tupper Lake with beautiful views of the mountains and sunsets. A great place for a family vacation.
Green River, Kentucky
Canoe the scenic Green River though the Mammoth Cave National Park on trips ranging from just 3 hours to 2 nights or more! You see miles of bluffs and nature including turkey, deer, beaver, birds and reptiles as you make your journey downstream. This is cave country, and at least two caves can be scouted at water's edge. Canoe camping is allowed throughout the park.
Sugested trip
Where To Stay
Cave Country Canoe
Mammoth Cave Hotel
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY
This 32 room motel is a good place a peaceful stay over to enjoy the attractions in the park.
The Okefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia is pristine, wild, and very soggy. It is made up of prairie, cypress forest, and scrub-shrub. A canoe trip through the Okefenokee will bring you to see huge osprey, herons, egrets and alligators, white-tailed deer, and turtles. The Okefenokee is the slow-moving headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys Rivers. Winter time can be an ideal time to canoe the Okefenokee. Though nights can get cold, sometimes in the 30s, the days can warm up to to 70 degrees, compared to the late Spring, summer and early fall months you are apt to experience 90 plus degree days with stifling humidity.
Suggested trip
Okefenokee Adventures
Where To Stay
Laura S. Walker State Park
Waycross, GA
A Campground close to the Okefenokee Swamp.
