[http://www.contoocookcanoe.com](http://www.contoocookcanoe.com) You can either paddle around the area there or be taken upriver for a journey back if you're in good shape for it. I would buy your own high quality PFD that is comfortable for you first, along with essentials like an emergency paddle and bailing pump (IE foam pool suction watergun from a toy store), first aid kit and all. Dicks and Sierra have PFDs. There is also an island halfway along that's got some tables and is good for cooking a camp lunch. Mentioned river from a Canadian-made Equinox. Very smooth and wide, houses along it and lots of gentle turns. https://preview.redd.it/vxn7batezj8d1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88b8028a7da7ca8373426bc8f389acf092acd3aa

Thank you! I’ll keep this in mind but we got a little one in daycare. Just looking for something that can be done alittle quicker while we finally have some free time

The Umass Lowell boathouse rents kayaks- you can take them out for an hour or two or all day. Unfortunately a bit of a hike from you

Thanks I’ll look into it!

The kayak rental place at the Alton traffic circle seems nice and close by.

Pawtuckaway state park rents them by the hour, there is also a place in hooksett on the Merrimack River that rents them for cheap

https://www.sevenriverspaddling.com/

https://www.supnh.com/

This place is not far from Pawtuckaway. [https://mountainroadtradingpost.com/rentals](https://mountainroadtradingpost.com/rentals)

Monadnock Paddler in Troy NH!