Whitewater Rafting

So it’s not the US Open or World Cup soccer finals. But it is the Superbowl of slalom, which heads to Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 12-15, just months after a record flood where the world’s best slalom paddlers will battle it out in the World Championships...

For today’s top freestyle kayakers, the reign of Dane is proving to be a pain. Dane Jackson wrapped up his first-ever Men’s Kayak World Freestyle Championships gold medal at the Nantahala Outdoor Center this weekend, with a blistering, high-flying, high-scoring performance leaving other competitors in his wake. For the women, Britain’s Claire O’Hara proved equally domineering, securing the title for the second time running…

The Wero Project whitewater stadium in Auckland, New Zealand will be created by Colorado’s Whitewater Parks International, slated for completion by 2015.

Spring 2014 will expand Sperry's performance water-shoe product line to it's largest offering yet.

Who’s it going to be this time around? Yep, it’s freestyle kayaking’s biggest stage in two years again, with the 2013 Freestyle Kayaking World Championships coming to Bryson City, N.C.’s NOC Sept. 2-8, drawing paddlers from around the globe. The question is, will the Brits prevail again, with 2011 World Champs James Bebbington and Clair O’Hara able to retain their coveted kayaking crowns?

Want to talk shop and learn from the whitewater industry’s top paddlers, retailers and instructors? The dates and location have been set for the 2013 National Whitewater Symposium, where you can hob-knob, brush elbows, paddle and drink beers with the best of them…

Partnering to bring safer, more affordably priced helmets to the paddlesports community, NRS hopes to increase the production and distribution of WRSI's revolutionary helmet.

At this year's Outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow, the biggest schmooze and product fest in the industry, paddlesports manufacturers again pulled out all the stops to make paddling better than ever. Read on for a quick recap straight from the floor show of what's out there...

When Rob Lesser accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canoe & Kayak magazine at this year’s outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow in Salt Lake City, he was quick to praise today’s younger generation of paddlers for carrying the torch. That was just one of many highlights at this year’s show as the 2013 Canoe & Kayak Awards presented by Verizon brought the industry together for one heckuva gala evening…

How’s the paddlesports and SUP industries faring? For a take from the trenches, we went straight to two of the most prominent – and opinionated -- paddlers around: none other than Eric Jackson of Jackson Kayak and Corran Addison of Corran SUP, two paddlers well familiar with both each other and making the cash registers ring. Here’s what they had to say…

The training run death of kayaker Shannon Christy, 23, of Greenville, S.C., on the Great Falls of the Potomac cancelled the annual Great Falls Race as part of the weekend’s 26th annual Potomac River Festival...

If you’ve ever kayaked in Ecuador with Small World Adventures, chances are you know guides Don Beveridge and Darcy Gaechter, who literally wrote the book on the area’s countless waterways. Well, they’ve left the operation after umpteen years and are now off on their next big adventure: running the entire length of the Amazon with friend David Midgley. We caught up with them for their take on all things Ecuador and their upcoming journey, which sees them land in Peru on July 21…

It’s been a helluva year for expedition kayaker Rocky Contos. First descents in Peru, the discovery of a possible new source of the Amazon, a race down the world’s longest artery, a book coming out, a feature in Canoe & Kayak magazine, and more. We caught up with him during a brief moment out of his skirt for the low-down on his latest South American shenanigans…

All we can say is that’s a lot of shuttle money. While climbing, disc golf, volleyball, dog fetch, fitness, golf, fly casting, even axe throwing and log rolling in the lumberjack division all made a splash at the Payette Games and Idaho Whitewater Championships held June 21-23 in Cascade, Idaho, it was paddling – complete with a whopping $54,000 cash purse between SUP, sprint and freestyle -- that stole the show…

The newly released Ultimate Canoe and Kayak Adventures is an illustrated compendium of the world’s top paddling hot spots.

The stretch of the Grand River flowing through downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, provides limited economic and recreational benefit to the city and its residents; but with a grant for $27 million, the city hopes to increase boating and fishing opportunities as well as restore the river's natural beauty and ecosystems.

Grammy-nominated The Infamous Stringdusters announced their 2013 American Rivers Tour -- an epic summer music adventure stopping through and winding down some of America’s wildest and most beloved rivers and surrounding communities.

High water, big cajones and top-notch skills were the name of the game at this year’s second annual raging Class V North Fork Championships on Idaho’s North Fork of the Payette, where Louis Geltman notched the fastest time down the hair-raising course to take home the $4,500 top prize…

Call it another notch on the paddle shaft of extreme racer Mike Dawson. Notch number four, to be exact. Dawson, a 2012 slalom Olympian from New Zealand, continued to show his command of creek racing by winning the GoPro Games' Bud Light Steep Creek Championships on Homestake Creek in Vail, Colo., for the fourth time and third in a row. Meanwhile, the Netherlands' Martina Wegman took the women's crown and Dane Jackson took his first swim in two years...

While a large landslide in Ecuador has spilled crude into the popular Quijos River, it hit the river downstream of most of the best kayak and rafting runs…

Down home fun is what you could call the 33rd annual Yampa River Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colo., held this year June 1-3. And wrapping it all up on the Monday afterward between the Lyons and GoPro Games in Vail was the eighth annual Paddling Life Creek Race, sponsored by the City of Steamboat Springs, Rocky Mountain Remedies, Kokatat, Rhino-Rack, Canoe & Kayak magazine and more...

Put Georgia and Alabama’s Chattahoochee River on your Southeast hotspot paddling list alongside such other Southeast boating hotbeds as the Ocoee, Nantahala and Chattooga. It just got a brand spanking new whitewater park with one of the biggest waves in the region...

Kicking off river festival season in the Rockies, the 2013 CKS Paddlefest heads to Buena Vista, Colo.'s Arkansas River May 24-26 for a fun-filled event for everyone from pros on up to grandma...

The Third Annual Golden Games will take place this weekend in Golden, Colo., now featuring vendors, more competitions, demos—and most importantly—more water.