Maine Canoeing

Guided Canoeing Expeditions in Maine & Canada

FOUNDED IN 1953 by Warren Cochrane and his father Herb, Allagash Canoe Trips is the oldest continuously-running guided canoeing service in Maine.

Allagash Canoe Trips offers trips of varying lengths to suit your schedule, from day and overnight trips to week-long expeditions. We encourage you to consider the longer trips, which provide the best opportunity to experience the character of the vast woodlands we travel through.

We have trips suitable for any level of ability. Our week-long Allagash trips are ideal for families and friends seeking quality outdoor time together, as well as solo travelers looking to meet new friends and share the beauty and peacefulness of the north woods.


We'll travel lakes, rapids, and meandering quietwater, with few portages. We try to allow plenty of time for relaxing, swimming, and exploring.

Encounters with moose and deer are common along the river during summer months. Birdlife is always plentiful. You may even have the rare good fortune to spot our more reclusive residents: black bear, otter, beaver, bobcat, or fox.

A guided canoeing trip with us gives you the opportunity to enjoy your trip in a more relaxed manner, with plenty of free time, and without the responsibilities of logistical planning, meal preparation, decision-making, camp chores, and transportation.

Your guide provides and prepares all meals, furnishes all but personal gear, knows the region and its very special places, and usually charges little more than it would cost you to outfit yourself, pay user fees, arrange transportation, and supply your own meals.

Maine Path & Paddle Guides offers
Wilderness Canoe Adventures on
Maine's Premier Rivers and Lakes.

Our Goal, as canoeing guides, is to provide a safe, organized, and fun experience into the Maine Woods that will leave lasting memories.



The selection of adventures that we offer range from Introduction to Canoe Camping (perfect for families), to thrilling Class III Whitewater Rapids (experience required).

Choose from four incredible River Trips on the Allagash, St. John, St. Croix, West Branch Penobscot, or East Branch Penobscot. Or, choose a flat water lake trip on Lobster Lake, Upper Richardson Lake, Mooslookmeguntic Lake, Flagstaff Lake, or Umbagog Lake.


We will provide you with the skills, equipment and access to get the most out of your wilderness experience. You'll enjoy fine gourmet camp fare too.

Family canoe camping, scout trips and canoeing trips for seniors are our specialty, but we can also put a custom trip together for you and your party.

Alyssa's Motel is located on Thomas Pond, RT 302, Casco, Maine.

The 442 acres of crystal clear waters of Thomas Pond is great for canoeing, boating, and fishing enthusiasts who prefer a quieter setting than some of the busier area lakes.


Launch your own boat from the public launch located across the street from us, or use the canoe that we provide free of charge to our guests, and explore this beautiful area.


Alyssa's Motel has 7 guest rooms and 2 suites available for guests.

All rooms/suites have picture windows with water views of Thomas Pond. Suites have 2 or 3 rooms with queen beds, hospitality galley, private bath, color TV, and A/C. Single rooms are spacious with 1 queen or 2 full size beds, A/C, and color TV. The motel is non-smoking.

Come enjoy our scenic, relaxing waterfront. Walk out your front door to discover a nicely lawned area for picnicking, or visit our dock area to fish or canoe. Prefer to relax and sip a cold drink? Sit outside in the sun or shade and watch the other boats glide by.

Alyssa's Motel is conveniently located to Sebago Lake, Long Lake, Point Sebago, State Park Beach, Tassel Top Beach, North Conway N.H., restaurants, golfing, shopping, snow skiing, boat rentals and much more.

Mahoosuc Guide Service offers canoeing trips and a wide variety of wilderness activities, for all seasons, and levels of experience, in Maine, New Hampshire and Canada.

Mahoosuc is the northeast's most versatile canoeing service. We are equally comfortable teaching traditional Cree paddling techniques in our wood-canvas canoes or instructing beginner to advanced level white water workshops. For us the two styles compliment each other and keep our love of canoeing fresh. Whether you want to learn to roll or pole, we can help you.

Maine has the most extensive and undeveloped canoe country in the East; from the quiet solitude of a northern lake to the thrill of white water. Travelling by canoe is the most natural way to see the northwoods and its wildlife.

Our trips are not a test of endurance, rather ample time is available for natural history, exploring and relaxing. Group size is normally small, four to eight, to insure a quality canoeing experience and to accommodate individual interests.