Upper Clackamas Whitewater Festival – Vendors 2027
Clack Fest is one of the longest-running whitewater festivals in the country. With easy river access and shuttles running all weekend, it is the perfect event to showcase your products.
Demos are easy and convenient for vendors. Festival participants will sign a waiver and receive a Tyvek wristband indicating they are ready to demo. To keep operations running smotthly shuttles will run between the Vendor Village, put-ins, and take-outs through the weekend.
Booth Cost:
- 15×10 – $275
- 15×20 – $400
- 15×40 – $550
Join us this Friday evening as we kick off the event to celebrate our community, the river, and friendships. Food and beverages will be available under the Big Eddy tent in the Vendor Village.
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.
AIRTIME River Gear
AIRTIME River Gear – Introducing the first inflatable Bimini designed for rafting
Whitewater Junkie River Sports
Nothing could have surprised us more. After spending several years enjoying our favorite pastime with some of the most amazing people, sharing it with our kids, and making memories with family, we have found ourselves wrapped up in our dream of building a career within our passion for whitewater. Everyday we pinch ourselves.
Evergreen Firewood
We’re passionate about making firewood simple, reliable, and accessible. Built on the values of honesty, quality, and convenience, our mission is to provide homes and businesses across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho with the firewood they need delivered on time and ready to burn. Whether it’s for cozy nights by the fireplace or consistent supply for your business, we’re here to keep the fire going strong all year long.
Evergreen will have firewood available for purchase at Clack Fest.
Sofia Fabric and Crafts
Handmade organic baby clothing, baby accessories, and crochet plushies
Mountain Training Network
Wilderness Medicine Training
Mobile IV Therapy 2U
Mobile IV Therapy 2U
Ink Bus Tattoo
INKBUS mobile tattoo studio. Step into a fully licensed and operational tattoo studio built out of a school bus. Markoon Dugally, owner and artist has been tattooing for upwards of 17 years and offers a wide variety of flash tattoos plus he can freehand design anything on the fly for you. Commemorate your event right with this comfortable and professional experience.
WaterWatch
Since 1985, WaterWatch of Oregon has pursued a single, clear mission: To protect and restore flows in our rivers and streams to sustain the native fish, wildlife, and people who depend on them. WaterWatch was the first organization in the West to seek structural reform of antiquated water laws to protect and restore our rivers.
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/
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.
Atlas Paddles
Atlas Paddles was founded in 2025 making paddles right in your backyard.
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.
City of Estacada
Situated at the base of the Mt. Hood National Forest and bordering the Clackamas River, this Christmas tree capital serves as a last convenience stop for travelers on their way to hiking, biking and snow and water sports.
Lush forests and rivers abound, while the urban center of Portland is a mere 35 miles away.
Oar Snubber
The Oar Snubber is a patent-pending device to help prevent rowers from falling out of their craft. This is achieved by preventing the oar shaft from sliding out of its oarlock when encountering extreme angles; be it in rapid conditions or that unexpected move. Oar Snubber is a small but essential accessory for rowers and boaters, designed to reduce unwanted movement and absorb shock in oars.
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.
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!
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Riverworx
Industrial river equipment made in the USA. Manufacturing custom composite kayaks and high quality river equipment in the Pacific Northwest
Sawyer
Premier Oar and Paddle Manufacturer Headquartered in Beautiful Southern Oregon for 60 years. 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.
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.
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.
Portland General Electric
Providing safe, reliable power for Oregon since 1889.
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.