Three Rivers Paddling Club

TRPC is a Pittsburgh-region club consisting of mostly whitewater paddlers from Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, the Maryland panhandle and beyond.

Our Goals are:

• Organization of river trips and other social outdoor recreation
• Promotion of safety and improvement of skills through organized instruction.
• Promotion of river conservation and recreational access
• Exchange of information relevant to paddlers, such as river guides, trip reports, equipment ideas and safety advice.

Become a Member

Members can participate in all club trips events including clinics and parties. Members also receive a printed roster of club members and newsletters. Join Here

Annual events

Details are posted at special events

Slippery Rock Training Clinic:

• Paddling instruction for adults and kids
• Group camping adjacent to McConnell’s Mill State Park
• Catered buffet dinner
• Normally held the first weekend in June

Turkey Bash Training Clinic:

• Paddling instruction for adults and kids
• Group camping near Ohiopyle State Park
• Turkey dinner with all the fixings prepared by TRPC own chefs
• Normally held the first weekend in August

Annual holiday party

• dinner
• Door prizes
• Normally held the first or second Saturday in January

Meetings

Monthly (except Dec-Jan), third Tuesday, 7:30PM to 10:00PM at:
Carnegie United Methodist Church
415 Washington Ave., Carnegie PA

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Directions: If you are traveling on the parkway from Pittsburgh heading to the airport, get off the Carnegie/Heidelberg exit (exit 2). The ramp splits. Take the left lane (Heidelberg). This turns into Lydia Street. Less than 1/2 of a mile, you will see a large parking lot on the right, on the left is a business called Xi-tech. Park in the lot on the right. The church is the last building on the right, next to the parking lot. Lydia Street ends at Washington Ave. The church door is on the side away from Lydia Street.

If you are coming from the parkway towards Pittsburgh, take the Carnegie exit again. Directions are the same because that ramp drops onto Lydia Ave.

Newsletter

The newsletter is mailed four times per year and posted at newsletters. Send letters to the editor, trip reports, river stories, and anything else for the newsletter to newsletter@threeriverspaddlingclub.com.

Trips

Impromptu trips are organized using posts on the Message Board. Scheduled trips are listed on the Events Calendar. To volunteer to lead a scheduled trip, send a note to outings@threeriverspaddlingclub.com with all the trip information. TRPC trips and events are limited to TRPC members.

Club organization

Officers and  Board of Directors

Constitution of the Three Rivers Paddling Club

Newsletters and meeting minutes can be found in the Archives

Affiliations

RPC is an affiliate club of American Whitewater, and an American Canoe Association Paddle America Club. American Whitewater offers a membership discount to TRPC members, and we strongly encourage our membership to support American Whitewater. American Canoe Association provides the insurance coverage we use for the clinics listed above.