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From the Field: Raquette Falls Waterway Work Trip, New York
By Audrey Burns, NFCT Intern Audrey adding just a little more rock. The 6-mile afternoon paddle upstream to the work site at the falls clued me in to the rhythm of the week – a lot of work, but with...
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From the Field: NFCT Special Projects Intern
By Adam Craten It’s August 10th and today is my last and final day working with the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. I remember like it was yesterday…walking into the office on my first day May 7th. I...
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From the Field: NFCT Project Coordinator in Saranac Lake
By Sam Brakeley Work has progressed smoothly on the NFCT’s two paddler access projects in Saranac Lake these past several weeks. The NFCT’s 740 miles pass through Lake Flower, on whose banks the town...
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From the Field: NFCT Project Coordinator in Saranac Lake
By Sam Brakeley Work in Saranac Lake wrapped up Friday, much to my chagrin since I now must return to the office and do paperwork! But we had fun while out there on the NFCT. A big thanks to all the...
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From the Field: Roving NFCT Project Coordinator
By Sam Brakeley The Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) in conjunction with the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) developed several paddler-specific signs to address the spread of invasive species and...
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Maine’s Dead River to Grand Falls Hut
By Chris Gill Here’s a trip report from a late season overnight paddle I took in 2010 to Grand Falls Hut on the Dead River (NFCT Map 9, Rangeley Lake to Spencer Stream). I stayed at the Maine Huts and...
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Lower Richardson Lake to Rangeley, Maine
By Russ Ford During August 13–16, 2012, I paddled the Northern Forest Canoe Trail from Lower Richardson Lake to Rangeley as a three-night trip with my mom and two teenage sons (NFCT Map 9,...
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2013 NH-ME Trail Maintainer Jamboree
We could not have asked for better weather for this year’s New Hampshire-Maine Trail Maintainer Jamboree. The ice on the Rangeley Lakes was officially deemed “out” just two days before our arrival,...
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From the Northern Forest Canoe Trail to the Tetons
By Allison Waring Today as I sit in Jackson, Wyoming watching the spring sun slowly melting away winter’s snow, I reflect upon how I got here. I’m sure part of the reason is related to my inability to...
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Paddling the Allagash Wilderness Waterway: A Father-Son Paddling Trek
By Stephen L. Priest Steve wrote this article in July 2009 following his trip and posted it on his blog Outdoor Enthusiast. Big thanks to Steve for allowing us to repurpose his story as we promote...
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Easy Water Trail Math: Subtract a Mile, Add a Pond
Future Through/Section Paddlers will be pleasantly pleased that we have shaved off 1.5 miles of carry between Island Pond and the Nulhegan River. This feat was accomplished with the support of two...
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Paddler Trip Safety: 7 Steps to Prepare
Paddlers know that our corridors of travel are unpredictable environments. The water levels can change rapidly with rainfall making what was a Class 2 rapid into a Class 3. There could be a strainer...
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NFCT Field Crew Halftime Show
We are halfway through our slated field projects and the NFCT Stewardship Intern Crew has been working at a break neck pace. They have been traveling across the the Trial performing stewardship...
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NFCT Says No to Transporting Tar Sands Across Our Route
Missisquoi. Connecticut. Androscoggin. I say these words as I write them, and recognize that what I feel for these rivers is love. As Executive Director of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT), I...
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Life Lessons from the Northern Forest Canoe Trail: A Second Grade Classroom’s...
By Sarah Carlson On one of her visits home last fall my daughter, Emma Carlson, told me of her desire to through paddle the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Emma Carlson and Emily Rooney through...
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Adirondack Canoe Classic: Paddling the 90-Miler for Kids
By Heidi Kretser In September 2013, Heidi Kretser joined paddlers in an 8-person Voyageur war canoe in the Adirondack Canoe Classic (a.k.a. 90 Miler), a 3-day race held every year since 1983. The...
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NH-ME Trail Maintainer Jamboree-2014
By Walter Opuszynski Talk about community! What an amazing time was had at the 2014 NH-ME Trail Maintainer Jamboree! We had a strong turnout and the on-again off-again weather did not deter spirits at...
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Back in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway
By Walter Opuszynski The State of Maine has contracted the Northern Forest Canoe Trail to perform user impact assessments at all the campsites throughout the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW). NFCT...
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Canoeing the Clyde River with Kids
By Karrie Thomas Where would you take a two and five year-old for their first canoe trip on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail? Culley and I decided to start with the Clyde River in Vermont out of Island...
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ENEL Volunteer Day: Highgate Falls Portage, VT
By Walter Opuszynski, NFCT Trail Director In recent months, the Northern Forest Canoe Trail has been working with landowners associated with the Sheldon Springs Dam portage on the Missisquoi River in...
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