Tag: Kayaking

  • Kayaking Is Back

    Guided by our very own Maggie Welling and Hunter Chapman-Clark, our kayaking programs are safe, fun, low intensity, and open to the public. We’ll be running our kayaking programs on an abbreviated schedule (Wednesday and Friday 7–9 am and Saturday 10 am–) until the last weekend in October!  Also, if you’re interested in setting up…

  • Quassaick Creek Fest

    Free community event for all ages. Enjoy free food, music, dancing, games, nature education, and more! Help create a vision for a healthy and connected Quassaick Creek Greenway. The Newburgh Waterways Center is sponsoring a free kayaking event on Muchattoes Lake on Sunday, September 8, in conjunction with Scenic Hudson’s Quassaick Creek Fest. The goal…

  • Kayaking Quassaick Creek with a Purpose

    From a recent Riverkeeper e-newsletter… Riverkeeper’s Habitat Restoration team recently hosted a community kayak day in the City of Newburgh for residents and our partner organizations, Outdoor Promise and Crystal Lake Sanctuary Healing Gardens. Paddling in kayaks, participants had the chance to experience the Hudson River and Quassaick Creek up close and personal. Much of…

  • Newburgh Waterways Center Under New Management

    Newburgh Waterways Center is a new umbrella organization of rowing enthusiasts, Newburgh families, and water safety organizations that is reimagining waterfront programming for families in Newburgh and surrounding areas. The center occupies the Ward Brothers Boathouse, the former Newburgh Rowing Club site, located in Ward Brothers Memorial Rowing Park at 2 River Street on the…