Upper Clackamas Whitewater Festival – Vendors 2025
Are you a brand specializing in outdoor or whitewater gear? 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 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.
Booth Cost: 10×10 – $250 / 10×20 – $375 / 15×40 – $500
In kind donations can be made by vendors to help reduce vendor fees for up to 50% of booth space cost with approval from the UCWWF. Donations are applied to vendor fees for products at wholesale value.
New for 2025* 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.
Pyranha Kayaks
After over 40 years of research and development, award winning designs, world-class expeditions, supporting top class boaters and expanding to become Europe’s leading specialist manufacturer of canoes and kayaks, we still design and build all our boats in Britain. We do not know where our kayaks will be paddled so they are all built to the same high standard – to be pushed to the limit by our world class team of paddlers on the world’s toughest rivers in the Himalayas, Rockies and Andes.
We are still primarily run by kayakers and so are committed to being on the leading edge of kayak design and make constant improvements to our whole production process to support this.
From kids to champions, we want everyone to enjoy the world’s biggest water sport having as much fun out there as we do. Whether that’s just ripping up your local play spot, exploring a remote creek or just messing about on the river. We always have and always will be by Enthusiasts, for Enthusiasts. Developing the most technologically advanced materials, using the industry leading processing methods and most detailed quality control systems means we can produce truly world class kayaks and reduce our impact on the environment.
AIRE
AIRE has been making high-performance, durable whitewater rafts, catarafts, and inflatable kayaks since 1989 in Meridian, Idaho. AIRE designs and builds their boats in the USA, using an innovative AIREcell system—an internal bladder inside a tough outer shell—for superior performance, durability, and repairability. Designed and tested by boaters, AIRE’s industry leading designs are at the forefront of whitewater rafting. Their boats are popular among rafters, guides, and adventure seekers for their quality, performance, and unmatched 10-year No Fault Warranty.
Happy Paddlin
Representing the finest in paddling sports since 2000.
Stohlquist
Stohlquist WaterWare has been crafting kayaking gear and apparel since 1977
Deployed Logix
At Deployed Logix, we’re redefining rapid deployment. We are the leader in American-made products for disaster preparedness and emergency response. DLX is dedicated to serving those who serve. It’s our honor to work extensively, both domestically and abroad, with:• Law enforcement• USAR // Fire• Emergency management• EMT // Healthcare• Expeditionary forces• Private organizationsOur team understands that when a crisis calls, seconds count.We are passionate about people and creating products that make their lives safer and easier.We’ve worked all over the globe. In every scenario, we discovered a common need: rapid deployment.As the world grapples with new challenges and disasters, DLX is committed to constantly improving existing product lines and innovating new ones to meet the ever-evolving demands of the professionals we serve. We make this our mission so that you can better focus on yours.
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Aquabound Paddles
For over 30 years, Aqua Bound has stood for kayak paddles of the highest-quality. Our Wisconsin-based team takes pride in producing best-in-class experiences for paddlers around the globe. Our commitment to service, pride in workmanship and dedication to innovation translate into paddles that bear the mark of quality and the promise of good times. Proudly made by paddlers, for paddlers, we embody the spirit of adventure and a never-satisfied attitude. You can trust that no matter where the waters are headed, Aqua Bound is committed to “Taking You There”.
Sawyer
Sawyer offers a full line of modern and traditional products for oarsmen, canoeists, kayakers, surfers and paddlers of all genres, delivered into your hands to provide unsurpassed function, performance and beauty. We design and handcraft every product in Talent, Oregon, USA, ensuring everything we make is from the highest quality materials with careful attention to detail. We take pride in our employees, stewardship of the environment and our country. In return, you have the assurance of knowing the product you receive from us is genuine, made in America and cannot be replicated. Sawyer products are designed by paddlers, oarsmen and surfers alike to fully meet your performance needs. Pick one up today and experience “The Feel of Water!”
Go Light Outdoors
Your Source for Quality Lightweight Whitewater Equipment – including our “International Travel” cataraft packages designed to be transported on commercial airlines to worldwide destinations. We also offer one of the lightest, best handling, high-kick catarafts on the market that weighs in as little 40 pounds for the set of tubes. We are a dealer for Jack’s Plastic Welding and Sotar. Accessories include full break-down aluminum frames, custom mesh bags, and custom travel bags for tubes and frames.
Level Six
Level Six is a Canadian company created by two friends competing on the Whitewater Slalom World Cup circuit. Their vision was to redesign and rethink how paddling gear is made. Our mission is to provide all those who love life on the water with a passion and confidence in the gear they are using.
Sotar
Sotar boats are design and made next the Wild and Scenic Rogue River in Merlin, OR. It takes many hands to design and build our boats. Each hand adds to the boats custom details. We are a small business with fewer than 20 employees. We work hard and then we play hard on the products we make. Sotar makes everything from inflatable kayaks, to ultra light rafts, to full size 18 oar frame boats.
Oregon River Gear
Oregon River Gear designs and manufactured high-quality rafting, kayaking, and paddle sports equipment. Built for durability and performance, their gear is crafted to withstand the toughest river conditions while maintaining comfort and reliability. Whether you’re a whitewater rafter, kayak enthusiast, angler, or weekend explorer, Oregon River Gear provides the essential equipment for adventure on the water. With a focus on innovation and rugged design, their products ensure paddlers can navigate remote rivers, challenging rapids, and scenic waterways with confidence.
Alpacka Raft
Alpacka Raft started the fall of 2000 as a collaboration between mother-son team Sheri and Thor Tingey. 20+ years later, every Alpacka Raft is handmade in our Mancos, CO factory, for adventurers by adventurers like you. Join the adventure.
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
Your source for disc golf, paddle sports rentals, tours, and instruction on the Wild & Scenic Clackamas River. We offer paddleboard, kayak, packraft, paddle, and life jacket rentals at our on-water locations inside Milo McIver State Park and Timber Park. Stop by our shop in downtown Estacada. Getting people on the water is what we do!
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.