Canoe the Wild

2024 Schedule

Below are schedule trips for the 2024 season. You can sign up as an individual, with friends, family, or as a group.

Our 2025 Schedule

 

St. Croix River Canoe Trip (more info)

Day tours & overnight trips, 3-5 days. Designated as a Canadian Heritage River, the St. Croix flows along the eastern Maine border with New Brunswick Canada offering great wilderness scenery, moderate whitewater, maintained campsites and fishing for small mouth bass. the St. Croix is well suited for families and groups of all ages with little or no experience.

  • May 17, day trip with East Grand School, (pictures of this trip)
  • June 3,  day trip with East Grand School (private group)
  • July 17-19, 3 days
  • August 7-9, 3 days (pictures of this trip)
  • August 13-15, 3 days (pictures of this trip)
  • August 31- Sept 2, 3 days (room for 4)
  • October, 4-6, adults only fall foliage trip (available) NOTE: Do not make a payment until we have at least 6 that want to go. For now, please fill out the online application and release form and if we receive applications from at least 6 by September 20th, we’ll notify you for a payment and move ahead with the trip. If we don’t have at least 6 by September 20th, we’ll cancel the trip. I’ll be out of the office and won’t respond to your emails until the 19th. In the meantime, contact the trip head guide Rachel for more info if needed 207-323-8502

Cost per person: day trips $150.00, 3 day trips $850, 4 day trips $995, 5 day trips, $1145.00, ages 17 & under $50 off on multi day trips.

 

Bonaventure River, Gaspe, Quebec (more info)

7 day whitewater canoe trip nestled in a forest of Black Spruce. We begin our trip at Lac Bonaventure high in the Chic Choc Mountains and end near the Bay of Chalour. Lots of lively class I-II whitewater with a few class III ledge drops. Must have good paddling skills. Note, this will be Dave’s, your head guide, 22nd trip down the Bonaventure River!  (pictures of our 2023 Bonaventure trip) 

Cost per person $2195.00

 

Allagash Canoe Trip (more info)

Our best trip for spotting moose with numerous starting and ending locations. Our 5 day trips start at Churchill Lake skipping the large headwater lakes. Our 7 day trip starts on Chamberlain or Eagle Lake and includes exploring the abandoned logging trains on the shore of Eagle Lake. We recommend the minimum age be 12 for 5 day trips and 14 for 7 day trips. We try and match up trips (families with younger kids with the same). Late August and September trips tend to be all adult trips.

Meals, we serve wild caught Alaska Sockeye salmon, local sourced filet mignon and other meats, a good mix of organic, lots of fruits and vegetables to name a few. We can accommodate for vegetarians and pescatarians. Gluten free folks will need to bring substitutes as needed.

Cost per person, 5 day trips $1395, 7 day trips $1695.00, *kids $200.00 off,  *kids is defined as ages 17 & younger. NOTE, if the trip is marked private group, it is a custom trip and not an open session trip to sign up on.

 

NE Mistissibi River, Northern Quebec  (More Info)

The NE Mistissibi River is one of Eastern Canada’s best whitewater canoe trips. It features over 70 sets of rapids in 70 miles, many over 1 kilometer in length. When paddling in low to medium water, there is only one short portage and several linings, making this an excellent river to paddle or pole that is not too physically demanding. Scouting more difficult  rapids prior to paddling provides helpful insight on how & where to run. Fish for Brook Trout and Northern Pike. Must have good whitewater paddling skills.

Cost per person is $2795.00, includes all equipment, meals while on the river, 1st night at a campground in Doubeau/Mistissini. For adults and ages 13-17 when taking part with an adult.

 

Wildlife Photography Outing, Base Camp, North Maine Woods

We’ll set up base camp at a remote lake known for excellent moose sightings. The area is teaming with birds and other wildlife. We’ll be in solo kayaks on the water in small groups both early morning and late afternoon and evenings. Meals will be cooked and served out of the main camp. Physical requirements involve getting in and out of a kayak and paddling your kayak around the small lake up to 1 to 1.5 miles and back. The registration fee covers all North Maine Woods fees, camp rental, camping and kayak equipment, meals, and transportation from Ashland, Maine, and back.

Grouse Hunting from Remote Wall Tent Camp

It’s early fall in northern Maine, the leaves are in full color and outside your tent door is the vast North Maine Woods with endless miles of gravel roads and an abundance of grouse cover! Our moose camp is dormant during this time and it is an ideal location for hunting grouse! You’ll be catered to with great meals and have your own private, 1-3 person wall tent complete with cots, sleep pads and a stove restocked daily with wood. Come be yourself or with friends and family. One guide per 2 hunters or go on your own.

Maine has a generous bag limit of 4 birds per day and 8 in possession.

October 1-5, (room for 4)

Cost per person: $2000 with a maximum of ten hunters in camp.

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