IPC Statewide Updates

IPC: Making Illinois Rivers Legally Accessible to Paddlers

November 10, 2024

Again this year, the paddler’s advocacy community will be working with the Illinois legislature to pass legislation correcting the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ erroneous interpretation of water law. This interpretation designates 98% of Illinois’s waterways as the private property…

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Join our IPC Auxiliary Volunteers

November 10, 2024

The IPC is an ALL-volunteer organization focused on paddlesports in Illinois and we need your help!  Join our newly-forming corps of Illinois Paddling Council Auxiliary Volunteers! No special expertise or big commitment of time needed. You tell us what you’re…

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New Documentary Film Release: “Mississippi Speed Record: An Epic Adventure”

November 10, 2024

Many of us in the paddling community are familiar with the epic, Guiness World Record-setting trip of Scott Miller, Paul Cox, Wally Werderich and Judson Steinback down the Mississippi River to set the World Speed Record of 16 days, 20…

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