Drome Open Canoe Festival France

When

18/04/2025 - 21/04/2025    
All Day

Where

Drome, France
Drome, France, Drome, France

Event Type

The Drome Open Canoe Festival

https://www.opencanoefestival.com/en/en-home/

This is a canoe festival from 18th – 21st April.

This is a festival of open canoeing, a great social event and 3 days of paddling.

You can also sign up for all sorts of workshops from Bushcraft, fishing, pack rafts, camp cooking and of course paddling skills + loads more.  There is also a mega raffle where you can win anything from a whistle to a new boat!

It all takes place on a 5* campsite on the banks of the rive Drome.

At the moment Pete, Bob and myself are going.  This is a great event for any grade of paddler .  Plenty of training opportunities .

It is canoe focused, but people do turn up with Sit on tops, inflatables, kayaks, pack rafts, canoes, 1/2 man rafts!

This is in France, but English is well catered for.

There are paddling opportunities beforehand from the 10th of April, but not for total beginners, a van is also preferable as you may well need to sleep in your vehicle as campsites are not always available and we need to be quite dynamic on where we go!

Our plans are fluid, depending on weather and water levels, but we hope to visit a selection of the best french w/w rivers on the massive central.

Please chat to me if you are interested, it would be great to have you along….it’s amazing over there!