No better way to close out paddling season than with a spooky Halloween paddling event! If you’ve never paddled a Halloween canoe or kayak event, you don’t know what your missing! They are simply spookalicious.

Check out these Halloween kayak, canoe and paddling events we’ve compiled from around the country. And if you know of such an event you’d like to see on BornToPaddle.com, please send it our way!

Remember, don’t pick up any hitchhikers!

8th Annual West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta – Oregon

Saturday, October 22, 2011

10am, Tualatin Lake of the Commons, Tualatin, Oregon

Click here for more info or to register for this event…

Third Annual Halloween Kayak Parade – Sleepy Hollow, New York

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Join the Bouys and Ghouls for the the Hudson River and Beyond Annual Halloween Kayak Parade! This easy paddle will be a near high tide and taking us into the mouth of Pocantico River and up to the haunted shores of Philipsburg Manor!

Click here for more info or to register for this event…

Halloween Harbor Paddle – Channel Islands, CA

Sunday, October 30, 2011

9AM, this is a harbor paddle and the distance will be approximately 5 miles round trip. All boats are welcome. Halloween creativity is encouraged. You may decorate your boat or yourself to fit this occasion.

Click here for more info or to register for this event…

Genesee Waterways Center’s 3rd annual Halloween FUNraising event – Rochester, NY

October 22, 2011

You’re invited to have a frightfully good Halloween to help raise smiles and funds for the Genesee Waterways
Center!

Click here for more info or to register for this event…

Looking for kayaking locations or canoeing locations in your state?

Search our places to paddle page for places to kayak or canoe for flatwater or whitewater. Kayaking and canoeing paddling locations are listed by U.S. State.

If you have a kayak race, canoe race or paddling event that you would like listed on our paddling races and events calendar, please use our handy contact form to send us the details.

Don’t store your kayak or canoe just yet! There are still plenty of paddling races to enter in October.

Kayak Race, Long IslandIf you love to go kayaking on Long Island, then you need to check out The Great Pumpkin race.

According to their website:
The Great Pumpkin Race

Saturday, October 8, 2011
Empire Kayaks
4 Empire Blvd
Island Park, New York.

This two mile kayak race has a twist to it. Mid- race you must exit your
kayak, pick up a pumpkin, and return to Empire Kayaks with it.

Biathlon & Canoe & Kayak Race, Fairport, New York
Fairport is located in the Town of Perinton on the historic Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal Regatta has a Biathlon (paddle & run), canoe & kayak race, and a fun fitness paddle!

According to their website:
Erie Canal Regatta

Saturday, October 8, 2011
Canoe & Kayak Races
Fairport, New York

Biathlon (5k run/5k paddle) – Individual & Teams

•  5K Paddle Event (no tandems)
• 14K Singles & Tandems
• 2K Fun Fitness Paddle – All types of paddling boats/boards are
  welcome.

Groups are Men, Women, &Teams
Click here to find more information on the Erie Canal Regatta.

To  find more information on the Great Pumpkin Race or to find other
paddling events, paddlefests, kayak races, canoe races, festivals,
adventure races or triathlons,  click here to go to our kayak & canoe races & events calendar.