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The Kipawa River
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| The Kipawa is a beautiful and surprisingly pristine river. With the exception of one spot where the river winds out close to Hwy 101 and passes a small home north of Laniel, there is no development, no cottages, and no buildings along its entire 16 km length. | |
| The mixed-wood forested banks of the Kipawa are beautiful, particularly on the lower half of the river, below Broken Bridge Rapid, where stands of big red and white pine tower over the shoreline cedar. Wildlife are abundant on the forested west shore of Lake Temiskaming. We often see loons on the flat stretches of the upper section of the Kipawa and ducks along the entire river. It is not uncommon to also see moose, osprey, linx, bear and deer. |
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| The 2003 Edition of "Whitewater Paddling", a publication of the internationally renowned Canoe & Kayak Magazine, recently listed the Kipawa River among North America's top whitewater rivers. In the article, by Rob Faubert, it is said that the Kipawa River is "simply one of the best, perhaps even the best, intermediate whitewater run in Eastern Canada The Kipawa also carries the unfortunate distinction of being one of Canada's most endangered rivers." Other rivers described in the article include: Washington's White Salmon, Montana's Alberton Gorge, the Tatshenshini/Alsek, Idaho's Payette, Vermont's Lower New Haven, West Virginia's Blackwater, and Colorado's Vallecito creek. |
