PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR 1st FUNDRAISING FULL MOON PADDLE!
Ridgefield’s Community Dragon Boat program needs your support. The first priority is docks.
Our Kaoshiung Boats are 40 feet long and desperately need their own home. For the dragon boat program to be sustainable we need docks. The cost is $45,000 and we have already raised $20,200.
Together we can do this.
We believe we can cross the finish line with docks in place by May 2026.
Our vision for the Community Dragon Boat Program began in 2018. Since then thousands of volunteer hours have restored the boats, and we successfully launched the program in 2023. This could not have happened without the City and Port of Ridgefield, Lion’s Club, Ridgefield Art Association, Clark County Fire & Rescue and the generosity of our extended dragon boat family in Portland and Vancouver.
From June - October the community dragon boat program provides recreational educational activity on Lake River that is FREE and INCLUSIVE. Connecting people to people, to history and culture, wildlife and spirit of place.
*2025 / Projected 27 paddles x 3 boats = 1620 people
- 2023 - 2024/ Volunteer Hours = 5000 Hours!
Please consider a SUGGESTED CASH OR CHECK DONATION of $50 -$100 but no amount is to small or to large. FUNDRAISING DONATIONS will go to a deaignated account with the City of Ridgefield.
Minimum age 14.
Please note No ALCOHOL.
6:15 Check in.
6:30-7:00 Gather on the waterfront to share stories with other paddlers and light refreshment.
7:00-7:30 Waivers, Life jackets, paddles, circle up for boat assignments.
7:30- 10:00 Paddle North to the Confluence of Lake River and the Lower Columbia River for a setting sun and paddle home anticipating the full moon rising. 5 miles RT
WHAT TO BRING : light jacket, water bottle, head lamp, maybe a folding chair.
