Lower Wharfe Canoe Club

River Sessions

This is the time when the skills learnt in the pool can be put into practice on the River Ouse at Bishopthorpe in York. This is the base for the club’s river trips and the area where equipment is issued.

Coaching for beginners & improvers will take place on alternative Thursdays only.

Due to qualified coach availability we will only be carrying out coaching on the following dates: 19, 26 May, 16 & 30 June, 14 28 July, 11 25 August.

On 9th June we will be joining the Big Spring River Clean up – available to ALL

On coaching evenings we will run a shorter distance paddle (hopefully the ice cream boat mooring) with optional coaching for those adults who would like to learn the full range of distance paddling skills, this is instead of the full Millennium Bridge paddle and is subject to there being enough coaches/helpers on the evening

Every other Thursday night

Millennium bridge paddle – a group will paddle to the Millennium bridge (aprox 8km) with minimal supervision (occasionally they may paddle down river), please sign up on webcollect to ensure that this session is running. 23 June, 7, 21 July, 4, 18 August, 1 September Ice cream stop on return from Millenium Bridge

Ice cream stop on return from Millenium Bridge

We park in the car park of Bishopthorpe Cricket club pavilion YO23 2SB, boats & payment are taken at the container in the York Marine Services & Campsite car park. Landing on a Thursday night

All finished on a Thursday night.

The cost for members & equipment hire is: £4, for non members it is £7 (with a discount for families). There is a launch fee of £1 for all participants. We now have an electronic card reader which we prefer people to use as it saves storing cash at the container.

For the river the following equipment is suggested if you do not have a wet suit – old shoes, trousers/shorts, T shirt & waterproof jacket depending on the weather, plus a change of clothes. All other kit is supplied if you need it in hire price above. Coaching on a Thursday night

Coaching on a Thursday night

To use the sign up system: You will need to register for our booking system WebCollect choose top right ‘sign in or sign up’ & then sign up with your email address & password. You will then be able to sign up for river sessions, you will need to pay on the night.

Toilet / Changing Facilities: Please note that for 2022 we are hoping to have use of the Cricket club toilets and changing facilities from 12th May.