River Run Canoe Rental

River Run is a fantastic camp site, with canoe rentals, and with shuttle service to the top of the Saco for people with their own kayaks and canoes.
The sites are huge, the people are friendly, and they have great facilities. The bathrooms and the showers make the camping experience a pleasure.
They also have ice and firewood guys that come around in karts and drop them right off at the campsites for a very nominal charge.
The sites are spacious, a little lacking in privacy, but very nicely maintained.
On Saturday nights they also have Live music, which can be heard at the campsites closeby, or, if you’d like, you can go right up and enjoy with a crowd of people.
Great campsite to enjoy the Saco River, although it’s definitely not the best camp site for families; however, it’s not loud and crazy like many other Saco campgrounds. It’s a great in between option.

This place is pretty awesome. The family who run it are very friendly and helpful. The shower and bathroom facilities look brand new and are well-​maintained. You’ll have to pay for a shower but it’s only $ 1 for 6 minutes. If you don’t want to walk all the way across to the bathrooms, there are outhouses around that almost smell pleasant.
We stayed one night before heading out to do 20 miles in a canoe. They have their own shuttle vans that can drop you off at different locations and you paddle back to your car. They will provide you with a canoe, paddles and lifejackets. The canoes are in good shape and are big enough to hold enough gear to keep 4 people alive on the river. The shuttles start running at 9am and it’s a good idea to check in early if you want an early start.
I wish the camp sites had been a bit farther from the road. We were way out in western Maine so I didn’t expect a ton of traffic but I was fairly surprised at the amount. The traffic noise wasn’t too bad at night but during the early morning it got quite loud, especially if you were sleeping in a tent.

We stayed at the River Run Campground and I have to say getting a canoe and to the river couldn’t have been easier. They picked up me and 17 of my friends directly at our campsite, drove us to the drop off point and unloaded our canoes. Then, they meet you at the ending point and load up your canoes again. Literally all you have to do is get in the canoe and float to the bottom. I highly recommend them for rentals and the campground. Check out my full review at

Great, family run canoe rental place. Check in process was easy, though a bit hectic. Lots of people were checking in at the same time though, so it’s understandable.
Staff graciously helped load our stuff up into the trucks/​vans. Only downside is that they forgot to give all of us (13 people) paddles and life vests when we checked in, but again it was busy and hectic, so we just asked before taking off, they laughed and grabbed the stuff.
Dropped us off where we wanted. Canoe floated great and fit all our stuff for one night of camping.
Had a blast on the Saco! A must-​do for anyone in New England during the summer! Next summer, I will go to River Run first (and only) for my canoe rental!

The annual trip down the Saco River in the summer has been a tradition amongst a large group of friends for the past five years. You can even call us Saco veterans. Just to be clear, we are not the meatballs who yell SACO! at everyone, either. This past year, we decided to try River Run, as they offered a shuttle service and an on-​site campground from which we could depart from on our last day of adventure.
From the moment we arrived, we were treated with hostility from the older woman who owns the company. Think of the evil old nun from your childhood (or the movies) who would just assume beat you with a stick than answer your basic consumer questions. The poor demeanor of the staff and their lack of customer service put a damper on the beginning of the trip; neither of which you expect nor want on a weekend camping trip.
Each canoe was charged an extra $ 40 for not returning on time, which was neither in my written contract nor verbally expressed to me. I didn’t fight it, as I just wanted to cut ties with River Run and move on. We were one of three separate groups that were late and had to listen to snide remarks and further scolding from the owner. At least the owner’s daughter was crushing Bud Lights and flying around on a 4-​wheeler, which was unintentionally hilarious.
There is nothing good that differentiates River Run from the many other canoe rental companies along the Saco River. Use a different company and enjoy your time on the river.

rented a canoe and camped here for the weekend. it’s the way to go if you’re going to do the saco river — one stop shopping. most places offer the same trips, slightly different but comparable prices, but this place offers the convenience of getting the canoe and camp site in one place. they’ll drop you off upriver and you come back to camp. they have about 20 campsites just off the river ranging from large sites in a field setting, river sites and wooded sites.
$ 10/​per adult per night is a pretty good price and all the sites are within about 100 paces of a bathroom. no showers.
the campground itself is very nice and well kept. they patrol most of the night to make sure everyone is ok and to keep the noise down.
the canoes were nice and well-​kept. they floated. for our trip, we had them drop us at canal bridge and we canoed back to river run. nothing was better than jumping into the river after a day paddling & drinking beers.

Well there’s only so much that you can say about a place you rented a canoe from.
1) the canoes worked.
2) they picked us up at the agreed site as promised. They came with a van so we weren’t left behind waiting while they dropped off the drivers at the cars to come and get the rest.
Word of advice!!! If they tell you that you need to call by a particular time to get a pick up, I suggest you make sure you call before that time. We were supposed to call before 5pm for pick up, I called at about 4:45pm, even though we were still en-​route. When I called again to double check they left at 5:05pm there was no one picking up the phone.
Travel on the Saco River, I highly recommend. Ones you manage to find a site it’s very lovely. No one around, just the water (lots of fish) and nature. Just remember that all the property along the river is private, so respect the owners and nature. :)