Paddle by Water Trails
Choose your paddling trail. Plan your adventure. Dozens of easy-access day trips through beautiful natural environments, each one to six hours long. Pick your style of route, your group’s skill level and select a paddling trail. Find launch and take-out sites. Read a route description. Whether it’s an out-and-back loop that brings you back to your car or a river run that requires a shuttle, here’s where you’ll find it.
Paddle by Water Trails
Safety and Paddle Etiquette
By respecting other paddlers, our waterways and nearby landowners, we ensure our paddle trails can be enjoyed by future generations. Be prepared for your trip. Ensure you have the right equipment. Here you’ll find guidelines that ensure everyone has a great experience.
Safety and Paddle Etiquette
Stewardship
Our paddling trails are pristine waterways. Communities throughout the Fredericton Capital Region care deeply about preserving these natural environments. Protecting the water and the land is important. Read more here.
Stewardship
A Rich Heritage of Rivers and Paddling
The Capital Region has a long and rich paddling history, beginning with the Indigenous Wolastoqiyik People who have used these waterways for millennia, using hand-made birch bark canoes.
These routes were paddled linking communities and facilitating commerce. They linked Central New Brunswick to the coast and up the great Wolastoq (Saint John River) to Upper and Lower Canada.
Wetland Animals
The Wolastoq watershed (Saint John River) is abundant with wetland animals. There’s nothing quite like being close enough to hear the flapping wings of a Great Blue Heron as it passes overhead or see a Bald Eagle swoop in to take a fish. These moments are what makes paddling here special. The river, its wetlands, backwaters, and lakes support a wide variety of wetland animals—from birds and mammals to fish and reptiles. Moving quietly by canoe or kayak places you at their level, offering exceptional viewing opportunities.
Wetland Animals