Paddle Ways - Lets Go Paddling

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About this app

Paddle Ways: Your Ultimate Whitewater, Kayaking, Rafting, SUP and Canoe App

NOW with nationwide coverage of rivers and access points.

PaddleWays is your indispensable digital guidebook and GPS navigation tool for whitewater adventures. Whether you're kayaking, rafting, canoeing, or stand-up paddling, PaddleWays has you covered. Developed in collaboration with American White Water, this app delivers crucial information to ensure safe and informed decisions before you hit the water.

Discover Exciting Paddling Locations
Explore new rivers and sections, near and far, through interactive maps. Dive into guidebook descriptions, match your skill level with provided difficulty ratings, and connect with related resources for comprehensive insights.

Effortless Planning
Plan your perfect outing with confidence using PaddleWays. Measure river miles, access thousands of points of interest like access points, boat ramps, campsites, and more. Bookmark your favorite rivers, check real-time weather, and river flow rates (CFS) by location to find the ideal time for your adventure.

Seamless Navigation
Navigate with ease using detailed interactive 2D and 3D maps, available online and offline. Choose from Satellite, Outdoor, and Street map modes, measure distances in river miles, and set location-based alerts for upcoming take-outs, camps, or rapids.

Connect with the Paddling Community
Stay in the loop with user comments on recent conditions, and reference notes, photos, and saved places from previous trips. PaddleWays is not just an app; it's an interactive atlas and community forum designed for paddlers, by paddlers.

Who is PaddleWays?
PaddleWays is powered by NRS, dedicated to making human-powered recreation more accessible, safe, sustainable, and enjoyable. With technology developed by onWater, PaddleWays donates 1% of sales to promote responsible use and resource conservation.

PaddleWays Plus
Unlock premium features with a PaddleWays Plus subscription, including offline maps, river guidebooks, real-time flow data, and public & private land data.

Discover the ultimate tool for your whitewater, kayaking, and rafting adventures. Download PaddleWays today and explore the waters like never before.

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Ratings and reviews

It's a nice app for tracking your current location. It's hands down the best maps I've found. When you search locations trying to plan trips it doesn't always move the map to that location and trying to pinch and zoom to find them is a bit tedious. The free version says you can create routes but any time I try to save one it prompts me to pay for the service and will not let me save a route without payment. I'd just like to try it first without handing over financial information.

Edit 7-29 still can't open Edit 7-23-2025 did update, still can't open Well, it was good. used it once on The Big Piney River. Really enjoyed that I could see everything on 1 app and not 3. I haven't been able to open the app in a week. I click on it, and my screen goes black and then shuts back to my phone home screen. I will change my rating if it'll work.

Crippled by lack of features in the free version. People keep complaining about the lack of features in the free version, and the developer keeps promising that they're going to add them, but they never do. The price is exorbitant for what you get because you can get most of the features for free just running a couple of other apps. If it wasn't a monthly fee I might consider it, but the fact that they want $50 a year is insane. They need to lower the price and add more features to the free ve

What’s new

You can now see algal blooms on the map, check live USGS webcams before you head out, and get lake surface temperature on waterbody overviews and in My Waters.
We've also added upvotes and New, Top, and Nearest sorting to the community feed, along with sign in improvements, and bug fixes.
Thanks for Paddling with us, and thanks for your help finding bugs. Please keep sending us feedback, we're always listening.