Upper Clackamas Whitewater Festival – Vendors 2026
Are you a brand specializing in whitewater, outdoor gear or local art? Clack Fest, the premier whitewater festival in the Pacific Northwest, is the perfect place to showcase your products! With hundreds of outdoor enthusiasts, paddlers, and families attending, your booth will have prime exposure to a highly engaged audience. Clack Fest is the perfect place for kayak and raft manufactures to get paddlers in your boats for demo runs on the river. Theres also options for flat water paddling making it a more inclusive event. For this years event we scheduled in lunch break on the race schedule to direct more people over to the Vendor Village for more engagement. New for 2026: Starlink WiFi will be provided to all vendors for e-commerce and social media needs.
Booth Cost: 10×10 – $275 / 10×20 – $400 / 15×40 – $525
New for 2026* Improved vendor layout
This year Clack Fest will include a map of the Vendor Village located at the registration booth, numbered booth spaces that correlate with the vendor map, vendor name and number provided to be posted at vendor booths. Volunteers will be on site for Friday from 12-6 to help vendors find their sites. Vendors coming in after 6pm can use the map and correlate site numbers to find their vendor location. All vendors should be set up by Friday night.
We are also trying to set up a vendor happy hour Friday night so we can all get together, grab a beer and chat about boating!
Please note that we’re required by the U.S. Forest Service to collect a 5% fee on all sales transactions made on site during the festival. Fees will be collected at the conclusion of the event. Each vendor is responsible for tracking sales and reporting transitions at the end of the event to the vendor coordinator.
Some vendors will be offering on water boat demos. Click to learn more.
Pacific Northwest Wilderness Medicine
PNWM is a nonprofit organization run by volunteer medical students and advisors that aims to spread wilderness medical knowledge to the pacific northwest through events such as educational conferences, medical wilderness races and educational talks.
https://www.pnwmed.org/
Tuff Talk Distilling
TUFF TALK Distilling is a project from Portland’s (likely) tallest distiller, Andy Garrison.
After more than a decade of making award-winning spirits at distilleries large and small, TUFF TALK is a platform to engage with the unusual, the rare, and the challenging.
These are one-time-only spirits made with an improvisational approach, exploring chance materials and rooted in a dedication to the history and traditions of distillation.
RIVTEK
Nikwax
Nikwax is the global leader in PFAS-free aftercare and industrial treatments for outdoor clothing and gear. We are the only aftercare company to have never used aerosols or fluorocarbons in our products, and to have fully balanced out our historical operational carbon emissions.
Our story began in 1977 when Nick Brown, an avid walker, grew frustrated with waterproofing products that softened the leather of his walking boots, affecting their structural support. Fuelled by a passion for the outdoors and a desire for better gear care, Nick invented the first Nikwax product. This innovative solution not only preserved the waterproofness of his boots but also kept the materials strong and intact.
In 2022, after 45 years of dedicated leadership, Nick transitioned Nikwax to an Employee Ownership Trust, marking a new chapter in our journey. Today, as a thriving employee-owned business, we continue to innovate in the development and production of sustainable outdoor gear care. Our commitment to protecting the environment is at the core of everything we do, from how we formulate our products to our operational practices and our partnerships with conservation charities.
Go North Rafts
Go North Rafts is a, Oregon-based company specializing in ultralight, durable packrafts designed for a variety of outdoor adventures, including whitewater paddling, bike rafting, hiking, fishing, and hunting. They are available locally at Clackamas River Outfitters in Estacada.
Aldercreek Canoe & Kayak
A pillar of the Pacific Northwest kayaking community we are your one stop shop for all things kayak, canoe and SUP. We offer classes, rentals and retail with knowledgeable and friendly staff.
This could be you!
Help us make this the best Clack Fest ever and be a vendor or sponsor the event!
Recretec
Simply put, we strive to build the best raft and cataraft frames on the market. What does that mean? It means that even though we’ve been doing this since 1972, there is no perfect frame. We’re constantly trying to improve a time tested product, which is not easy. The only way we can do that is to not only have passion for the outdoors where our products live, we also have to be excited everyday about fabrication and listen to our customers. Through thousands of hours of real world feedback and in house R&D, we believe we have succeeded in offering the most versatile range of adventure rafting products available today.
Kokopelli
Since 2012 Kokopelli has designed and manufactured award winning packrafts, inflatable kayaks and stand-up paddle boards. Kokopelli products are ruggedly designed to last and purposefully built for ultimate portability and packability. Paddlers, campers, hikers, overland and van life enthusiasts, bikers, climbers, anglers and hunters adventure all around the world in their packrafts. Kokopelli specializes in packrafts which are ultralight and packable kayaks that weight 5-20 pounds, making them easy to cary to remote paddle spots or if you are just tight on storage space.
Clackamas River Outfitters
Clackamas River Outfitters is dedicated to getting people on the water with the right gear, local knowledge, and a focus on safety and fun. The shop specializes in paddle sports gear, rentals, tours, and instruction on the Clackamas River in approachable paddling experiences, helping beginners to experts explore the Clackamas River with confidence. Every visit is centered on friendly service, quality equipment, and memorable time outdoors. CRO also specializes in disc golf and carries a wide variety of discs. Stop by our shop in downtown Estacada.
Many old friends and familiar faces (and a bunch of new ones) are attending the Festival this year. Listed above are the folks who’ve signed on so far. This list is growing as we get closer so check back.
Please take a few minutes and check out their web sites. If you see something you like call them and ask them to bring it out to the festival with them. The Upper Clackamas Whitewater Festival is the very best opportunity to meet these fine folks and see up close and in person the latest and greatest gear they have to offer. Many will be offering special discounts for people attending the Festival.
Also, besides our vendors there will be several river awareness groups on hand to share their knowledge. Be sure to check them out and see how you can contribute to help in the ongoing battles to preserve our resources and the ever diminishing access we have as boaters.