Spirit of the Trail Award: David Thanhauser & Cloe Chunn The Maine Island Trail is the only recreational water trail that spans the entire coast of Maine, but it’s not Maine’s only water trail. There are several others, including the Penobscot River Paddling Trail, which runs for more than 100 miles along the main stem […]
Notes From Our Annual Meeting The Penobscot River Paddling Trail’s Board of Directors hosted its annual meeting on Aug. 23, 2025. Our team started the day with an 8-mile paddle from Howland to Nibezun. After lunch at the campsite, Nick Bear and Gabe Paul began the annual meeting by presenting their work on the Penobscot […]
Join Us: Paddle & Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the Penobscot River Paddling Trail will start with a morning paddle on Saturday, Aug. 16. We’ll meet at 10 am at the Howland Boat Launch at Tannery Park to put in, and paddle 8 miles downstream to the campsite at Nibezun in Passadumkeag for lunch […]
New Campsite on Verona Island On July 27, the 11th campsite of the Penobscot River Paddling Trail was established on Verona Island. The campsite is a collaboration between landowner Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, Maine Island Trail Association, and the PRPT. The land trust offered us a place for a campsite on the Joost Family […]
Paddling from Mattaseunk Dam to Bangor Every year my cousin James and I do a week-long river trip; we’ve always done trips closer to where I live in Virginia. This year we wanted to do a trip closer to James in Maine, so we decided to do the Penobscot River from Mattaseunk Dam to Bangor. […]
New Campsite in Prospect On Sept. 24, 2023, 13 volunteers gathered to make the 11th campsite of the PRPT, located on Bowden Point in Prospect. We worked from 9 am to 1 pm to clear and mow two small fields, clear the ground of logs and brush for tents, carry in a picnic table, an […]
Paddling the South Branch of the Marsh River, Frankfort and Prospect September 2 could not have been a more beautiful day, and paddling conditions were ideal. Not too hot, a light breeze all day, a rising tide helping us paddle up the South Branch of the Marsh River. Twenty-three people met and launched at 10:30 […]
Canoe Trip and Annual Meeting 2023 On the morning of July 30, Donne Sinderson, David Thanhauser, and Cloe Chunn met at the Penobscot Salmon Club in Brewer, home of one of the PRPT campsites. We launched canoes at 8:20 on a slack almost-high tide. When we started seeing eagles over downtown Bangor-Brewer right away, we knew […]
Join Us for the PRPT Annual Meeting & Paddle The Penobscot River Paddling Trail’s Annual Meeting and whitewater trip is right around the corner: July 29-30. The full trip is a whitewater and tidewater trip: a two-day paddle from Old Town to Orrington. On Saturday, July 29, we’ll meet at 9 am in Old Town […]
Volunteers Complete “Sturgeon Leap” Campsite On April 29, 20 volunteers gathered to create our 10th Penobscot River Paddling Trail campsite, based as all campsites are on a handshake agreement. The landowner is the Town of Orrington, and we are grateful for their invitation to place a campsite there. The campsite is 12 miles upriver from […]
