Voices from the Trail
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Grateful for the NFCT Community
This spring and summer, I’ve been out of commission due to a chronic condition I’ve lived with for over eight years. I’m not going to get into details, but the whole ordeal spiralled quite badly, culminating in surgery that I’m…
Multi-Year Effort Invests in Maine’s Outdoor Infrastructure
A multi-year partnership between the Maine Bureau of Parks & Lands, local landowners and the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) is enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities statewide. Over the last several years, NFCT’s professional stewardship team has implemented projects that improve safe…
Adirondack Paddling Symposium set for June 16-19
Registration is open for the 2023 Adirondack Paddling Symposium, June 16-19 in Saranac Lake. Presented by NRS and the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, the Symposium is a comprehensive weekend of paddling instruction for beginners and intermediates, and includes course tracks…
Giving Back to Your Canoe Trail
Here in the northeast we are blessed with the annual turning of the seasons. At each juncture I sense the miracle of our landscape’s ability to support us with its beauty and bounty. It’s the same every year, yet I…
Meet This Year’s Stewardship Crew
Each year, the Northern Forest Canoe Trail trains and employs a professional stewardship crew, including a field coordinator and our paid interns. This dynamic team helps us implement projects that improve access, enhance user experience and minimize negative impacts on…
NFCT Welcomes Race Coordinator, New Board Members
The Northern Forest Canoe Trail has welcomed three new faces to its team: Adirondack Race Coordinator Jordanna Mallach, and board members Brandon Devito and Jess Wilson. “With interest in paddling and outdoor recreation at an all-time high, it’s more important…
New Film Documents the Charms & Challenges of Lake Champlain
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Over the course of 14 days, a relatively inexperienced paddler named Jordan Rowell kayaked the entire 120-mile length of Lake Champlain. His watery trip from Whitehall, New York to the northern reaches of Missisquoi Bay in Quebec…
Aaren Harris: Navigating the NFCT with FarOut
My husband, Chris, my son, Rewan, and I began section paddling the Northern Forest Canoe Trail in June of 2018, when Rew had just turned 4. We knew we wanted to do a long canoe adventure and Rew had grown…
Meet the NFCT’s 2021 stewardship crew!
Our stewardship season is officially underway. Two weeks in, projects have been completed in Vermont along the Mad River in Waitsfield and the North Branch Cascades Trail. Under the direction of NFCT Stewardship Director Noah Pollock, the team will tackle…
“Beta testers” needed for our a new trail app
The Northern Forest Canoe Trail and the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation are partnering with Guthook Guides to create a smart phone based map and guide for our routes. The GPS enabled app will allow users the ability to locate themselves…