Canoe for a cause

We believe a river with excellent water quality, abundant natural habitat, safe for fishing and recreation is a basic public right.

Willamette Riverkeeper wants you to get in the water.

Take a day trip—on the water

You can float away on Riverkeeper’s organized Pinot paddle through Oregon’s wine country, take day trips out of Portland, volunteer to pick up trash, join a restoration work party or be a citizen scientist and help monitor mussels and water quality. When the pandemic ends, Riverkeeper’s Oregon Paddle will resume--a week of camping and canoeing.

One of the key source waters of the Willamette system is Waldo Lake, one of the purest lakes in the world, in contrast to the highly polluted 10-mile long Superfund site located at the river’s end, in Portland, where the Willamette flows into the Columbia. In between there are beautiful landscapes, peaceful floats, and urban access. 

Let’s protect this place!

Threats are many: loss of riparian habitat, pollution, climate change. Willamette Riverkeeper gives all of us a chance to save this river….and have fun.