Get ready for an unforgettable wilderness experience. The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation (AWWF) is thrilled to announce the opening of registration for the 2025 Youth on the Allagash (YOTA) program. This incredible opportunity allows eighth-grade students from the Valley Unified (MSAD 27) and Ashland (MSAD 32) school districts to immerse themselves...
Read moreCheck 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreStarting in 2016, Youth on the Allagash has connected middle school students in the St. John Valley with multi-faceted Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), project-based, learning units for a new generation of environmental stewards informed about the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change. The initiative also...
Read moreSince 2017, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation has worked with partners to provide opportunities for local youth to build wilderness skills, explore the Waterway, and learn about its history. This fall, we again partnered with Chewonki and local schools to provide multi-day, fully funded guided river trips to 16 youth from the St. John...
Read moreThis year, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation (AWWF) partnered with Chewonki of Wiscasset, Maine, to offer two all-expenses-paid paddling and camping trips on the Waterway for youth living in gateway communities of the Waterway. With the generous support of local partners, the Quimby Family Foundation, and the Defoe Fund, 18 students from the Katahdin...
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