Messin’ About In Canoes: An informal get together to paddle, share stories and just enjoy being on the water with other canoeists. Bring your own canoe, gear, etc.

UPDATE 05/24 - NEW LAUNCH SPOT

The next Messin’ About will be June 1st and launch from the Peabody Street Landing, off Peabody Street in Middleton. The launch is maintained by the Middleton Stream Team (big thanks for all the work they do on the river!). There is a small amount of off-road parking at the launch and the street is not marked with no parking signs

We’ll paddle upriver from the Peabody Landing, past Rachel’s Rest (named after Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring). We may or may not make it all the way to Mortalo Landing, where the Ipswich passes under RT 62 (Maple St). We’ll ride the river back down to the put in.

This is a really pretty paddle.

Please click here if you are interested in attending. If the mail link doesn’t work, then please send an email to whiterosecanoe@gmail.com. Please include a phone number where we can reach you in case there is a last minute change.

Here’s a Goggle Maps link to Peabody Street Landing

Notes: The Middleton Stream team established and maintains five landings along the Ipswich and are great supporters of the Ipswich River and the Ipswich River Watershed Association. Mortalo Landing is named in honor of Vito Mortalo. He was a Middleton contractor from Italy, an American for 45 years and a stone lover who pooh-poohed short lived wooden stairways and did great stone installations at the Peabody, Mortalo and Farnsworth landings at very little cost to the town

Note: This is not an “official” event - just folks getting together to paddle at the same time in the same place.