Scheduled releases that KCCNY members are likely to hit. If you are thinking of going please post a trip. Be sure to check before scheduling or driving.

Mongaup (Class 2+) has schedule releases 1 day every other weekend from April-October. 2025 Mongaup Schedule.
Dam operator Eagle Creeek also publish their energy release schedule a day or 2 ahead of time.
Mongaup is closed due to eagle nesting Dec. 1st – April 1 (no fooling).

Lehigh aug 2014 by brennan carleyLehigh offers great class 2 water and  releases which (we try to)  alternate with the Mongaup for 2 days from mid may to end of August.
2025 Lehigh release schedule.

May: 10, 17, 24, 25, June: 7, 8, 21, 22, July: 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, August: 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23*, 24*, 30*, 31* + Columbus Day weekend ‘mega’ release*
*starred releases on the Lehigh are water dependent but usually happen.lackawaxen-from-aw

Not far from the Lehigh or Mongaup is the Class 1-2 Lackawaxen,  a great first whitewater stream with lots of avoidable features that has schedule releases Fridays in July and early August. Schedule should be posted on safewaters.com here.

Deerfield River in Massachusetts offers both the class 4 Dryway/Monroe Bridge section and the class 2 Fife Brook Section that ends in the Class 3 Zoar Gap.

We won’t bother with:
Hudson Gorge releases Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from earlier in the spring to later in the fall then we normally go.
Tohickon Creek which releases the 3rd weekend of March and the first weekend of November (though usually isn’t made official until days or weeks ahead of time).
Esopus releases which so seldom happen. KCCNY conservation committee is trying to bring these back.

Northeast releases (Maine, Mass, NH): Boston AMC maintains a good compilation of releases in their neck of the woods at amcbostonpaddlers.org/documents/river-releases/. As of early Jan, 2025 the above were the 2024 schedules.

ADIRONDACK REGION

Kept updated at  https://backyardboatshop.com/pages/ny-festivals-and-releases.

  1. Black River Festival Sat mid July normally coincides with a Salmon release!
  2. The Beaver River Rendezvous
  3. Salmon is a popular class 2 west of the Adirondacks. 2025 Salmon River Release Dates
    July 5, July 6, July 19, July 20, August 2, August 3, August 30, August 31. Source adventure-calls.com/rafting_salmonriver.html
  4.  All GPS coordinates in the Google Calendar at  https://backyardboatshop.com/pages/ny-festivals-and-releases.

Maintaining a release calendar is complex.

We recommend you contribute to the American Whitewater release schedule

One of the features of the AW website (not mobile app at this point) is a dam release calendar that covers the entire USA. Go to: AW Main page, River info, bottom of page- Release Information- View Calendar. https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Release/view/

The calendar can be filtered by date, state, and region. If you want to look at scheduling a paddling trip to a region in midsummer the calendar allows you to see ALL releases on ALL rivers in that area during that time.
AW negotiates release dates so they are THE primary source of information for release schedules. AW does not currently prioritize updating the calendar however, perhaps because few of us know of the calendar availability and its incredibly flexible and valuable features.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE THIS BETTER:
The AW management and team need to know this calendar feature has true value to our community. If several of us in each of the AW regions, offered to be the data entry support team we could ensure the calendar gets populated accurately and timely. If you would like to assist with release calendar data entry (it is incredibly easy to do) please contact your local representative or “Regional Stewardship Director”. https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Wiki/aw:staff/
Also, please reach out to Kevin Colburn https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Wiki/aw:staff/?#kevin_colburn directly and let him know this feature holds tremendous value to our community and thank them for all the work the already do on our behalf.
If you are not currently a member of AW currently PLEASE join. AW does so much for our community and each of us benefit from their efforts. https://membership.americanwhitewater.org/…/lightningme…
If you’d like to volunteer reach out to Briggs Pletcher via FaceBook who wrote this article.

Mongaup 1 barrel June 4th lunch spot