Palmer River Festival
May 16 @ 5:00 pm - May 18 @ 5:00 pm EDT
Join us for our exciting semi-annual weekend festival that connects our paddling community together and refreshes our paddling skills. Join a clinic with friends to end off your paddling adventures for the year with the incredible instructors at Spring Palmer River Fest!
What a typical festival weekend looks like:
•Friday arrival, registration, welcome & music @ 5 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
•Saturday registration @ 7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
•Saturday & Sunday: 4 instructional whitewater clinics (high quality, safely facilitated) Saturday a.m./p.m. & Sunday a.m./p.m.)
•Packafting! A fun introduction to whitewater
•Kid-friendly whitewater canoe & kayak clinics
•On-site camping Friday and Saturday night (tent only – we’ll be tight for space!)
•Kids Concert Saturday 4:30pm-5pm – featuring John Reynard
•Live music Saturday night – featuring The Valley Cats
•Local food (bring your cash)
•Radical raffle: sweet prizes & swag!
This Year:
•You asked, we delivered, this year we have separate Intermediate and Advanced clinics in all disciplines!
•Kayak Stroke Refinement and Rolling Clinic. Join for an on-water Saturday with stroke refinement in the morning and rolling & bracing in the afternoon. PLUS you have the option of joining the down river trip (a.k.a. The Day Run on the Lower Madawaska) on Sunday. Camping and Saturday lunch are included with this clinic.
Perfect for EVERYONE: non-paddlers, brand new, experienced or expert paddlers! Who doesn’t like river fun, good music, good food, good friends new and old? Exactly!
