Pine River Paddlesport Center

Reviews about Pine River Paddlesport Center

• Kent Vaughn

  Sep, 07 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  We both camped and rented kayaks from Pine River Paddle Sports during July 2017. Both parts of our trip were really outstanding.
  
  Camping:
  Terrific quiet campground. Each spot is quite large and plenty of trees between campsites. While we’ve only stayed there this one time, I didn’t see any camping spots that didn’t look fine. Also there isn’t electricity to the sites, but there is running water at most sites (all?). They also have a nice setup with the fire ring where they have a grill portion that you can cook on or you can flip it over so it isn’t in the way of the evening fire. They also have secure garbage at each site, making it easy to keep thing cleaned up and secure. Bathrooms the first night were incredibly clean, but did get a bit more messy as we got towards the weekend. Shower was very nice, but you do need to pay in quarters for the use ( but money well spent ). For more “things to do”, they have a terrific frisbee golf course ( get a map at the office ) and a fun hike from the campground over to the pine river.
  
  Kayaking:
  We rented two kayaks for a 5 hour trip down the pine. They did a great job in setting us up and even giving us some tips on kayaking the Pine as it was our first time on the Pine. The shuttle system works a little differently where you drop your car at the destination spot so that when you are done you can just jump in your car and take off rather than having to wait up for a shuttle to arrive or waiting for the “top of the hour” pick up. This worked really well and was a nice change from most outfitters. The pine was a terrific river and also challenging enough to keep us quite busy during the trip.
  
  All in all it’s a great spot and strong suggested. The owners seem very helpful so if you did have a problem ( we didn’t ) I’m sure they would be more than willing to help out.
• Sanket Phalgaonkar

  Apr, 22 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  We took 2 rafts and 1 canoe for 11 people. The canoe was easy to control, but rafts were to light and flowed with the current. I must say I enjoyed the raft more than canoe. We also had an incident where we got stuck to an overhanging branch and water gushed in the raft and we had to jump in the river.

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