Welcome to the paddling portion of the Wilmington Trail Club. The Wilmington Trail Club has been in existence for over 60 years, and counts over 75 paddlers from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland among the 700+ members of the club at large.

• If you are already a paddler (canoe or kayak) and are looking for a group to paddle with, we hope you'll join us on the river. 
• The 2008 paddling schedules are publicly viewable on this website.  Each discipline of kayaking has it's own web area and calendar in the website menu.
  
• If you want to learn how to kayak we offer both whitewater and flatwater kayak training in the spring.  Click a link to learn more about WTC Kayak Training.

Don't forget to check out the sections of our website dedicated to the different types of paddling!

White Water Kayaking & Canoeing and  Recreational / Sea Kayaking & Canoeing

For more information contact Tom Halladay, Paddling Chairperson,  Halladaypublic@hotmail.com or Bob Swain, Director of PR and Marketing, at wtcpaddling@yahoo.com

Our paddling group paddles everything from the Brandywine to rivers in West Viriginia with challenging whitewater.  Paddlers of all interests and skill can find trips they enjoy.  Listed below are examples of the some of the types of paddling trips offered throughout the year:

• Any number of trips on a scenic and fun stretch of the Lehigh River in the Pocono Mtns.
• Fall & spring trips on the Tohickon in Bucks County (near Point Pleasant)
• A fall colors trip on the Brandywine River
• An Easter weekend trip to northeast West Virginia - paddling tributaries and sections of the Cheat River
• Weekend trips to the ever-popular Youghiogheny river in  southwest PA
• Canoe camping trips on the Delaware