Year: 2024

YOTA Wilderness Trips

Check out our video on our Youth Wilderness Trips! We offer fully-funded multi-day wilderness trips on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway to youth from the gateway communities of the St. John River Valley and from immigrant, BIPOC, and other underserved communities throughout Maine. Participants learn canoeing and camping basics and leave-no-trace...

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AWWF Advanced Leadership Wilderness Trip

Check out our video on our Leadership Trips. The AWWF Advanced Leadership Trips provide a week-long canoe camping experience on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Participants expand their outdoor leadership and stewardship skills, learn the basics of wilderness survival, and explore wilderness stewardship career pathways through campfire chats with Registered...

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We are hiring an Executive Director!

The Board of Directors of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the job of Executive Director. The AWWF was established in October 2011. The AWWF works collaboratively with the staff of the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands and the Allagash Wilderness Waterway to support...

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Advanced Leadership Trip

The successful AWWF Youth on the Allagash (YOTA) trips were expanded in 2023 to include an Advanced Leadership Wilderness Trip. Guided by Canoe the Wild, the leadership trip was a fully outfitted multi‐day paddling and camping trip for high school students from the St. John Valley. Priority was given to...

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