Welcome to the Potomac Whitewater Festival!

2010 Dates Announced! July 10 & 11

The Potomac Whitewater Festival is an annual fund raising event that celebrates the Potomac River.

The festival's most dramatic and dazzling event is the Great Falls Race. This downriver race is a quick, adrenaline-packed descent of 60 vertical feet through the Potomac's spectacular class V+ Great Falls. Other festival events include freestyle, wave surfing, and squirt boat competitions, beginner whitewater clinics, attainment, slalom, and boatercross races, and much more.

The final heat going through the streamers in the 2005 Great Falls Race. Photo courtesy of Bob Leverton.

For the past eighteen years the festival has been supporting American Whitewater, the nations leading advocate for the protection of our whitewater river resources. AW represents paddlers' interests to restore rivers, eliminate water degradation, improve public land management and protect public access for responsible recreational use.

From the Potomacfest Blog

What clinics would you like to see for 2010?

Submitted by Nathan on December 10, 2009 - 02:11.
Boat and Gear Demos
0% (0 votes)
Skill Clinics led by local talent
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Skills Clinics led by traveling professionals
0% (0 votes)
Whitewater Photography and Filming
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 0

Potomac Fest Thanks from AW

Submitted by Risa Shimoda on July 22, 2009 - 09:47.

Hey Risa,

Just wanted to write you, and the rest of the Potomac Fest volunteers, to say: Thanks!!

Attainment Race Video is Up.

Submitted by ckirby on July 15, 2009 - 22:51.

Check out the video of the start and finish of the Attainment Race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJfERJ8FmJw

Slalom Results

Submitted by JohnM on July 15, 2009 - 15:46.

Here are the winners by class. Full results are coming...soon...really...honest. :-)

Squirt Results

Submitted by Steve G on July 15, 2009 - 15:42.

Great Falls Race Results

Submitted by Thilo Rusche on July 13, 2009 - 14:02.

Wave Surfing Results

Submitted by ckirby on July 13, 2009 - 08:47.

Attainment Race Results

Submitted by ckirby on July 13, 2009 - 08:42.

2009 Freestyle Results and Scores

Submitted by JamesSneeringer on July 12, 2009 - 21:41.

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out, and to the competitors for a great competition!

Beginner K-1

  1. George Brewer (98 pts)
  2. Howard Morland (73 pts)
  3. John Brewer (52 pts)

Advanced K-1

Share Your Potomacfest Pics!

Submitted by Thilo Rusche on July 12, 2009 - 07:21.

If you have good pictures of this weekend and would like to share, upload them to your usual favorite place and add a comment on this post with a direct link, preferably with a short description of the events covered. That way you have full control over your pics and everybody can easily find them.

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