Looking for a town to satisfy the wifes kayaking habit. Somewhere in New England or Southwest. Half hour max to great paddling and climbing/bouldering.

Thanks!

well my local climbing gym is a mile from my kayaking lake,,,,have to be satisfied with that for now.

Great climbing and whitewater in western NC and surrounding areas--though sadly you might be driving over 30 minutes for either climbing or kayaking. Cashiers, the one area where you could easily do both (Laurel Knob, Whitesides, etc. for climbing and the Chatooga for paddling), is fairly expensive.

If one of you is willing to drive a bit further then you will have many more options such as Asheville, Brevard, Lake Lure, Boone, etc.

Salida, CO

Washington has really good boating and climbing. check out Leavenworth, you have some of the best playboating and creeking 15 min from town and the majority is roadside. tons of cragging and bouldering, plus the enchantments for any of your alpine climbing needs. it's Bavarian theme is cute too!

Waynesboro VA

You didn't hear it from me, but it rhymes with Boulden.

To live or to visit?

To Live.

Whitewater up to class 4.

Keep em comin!

Maine has all you are looking for.

From bangor you've got clifton (25 minutes) and acadia (1 hour), both with awesome climbing. The kenduskeag stream in downtown bangor has some good drops up to class IV and there are tons of other rivers close by (and countless rivers if you are willing to drive a bit).

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Hanover, NH area. Nice college town, great local bouldering options (although pretty word of mouth), and rumney is 45 minutes away. Good trad options at Cannon (1:15) & Cathedral/Whitehorse (2 hours).

In terms of kayaking, there's a decent play spot that runs most of the year about 10 minutes away, and a wide variety of class III-V runs in the surrounding 2 hours (both NH & VT).

I've been climbing & kayaking around here for the last 4 years, and it's about as good as you can get for a new england town... (i'd look at North Conway, NH too if you can get a job near there...)

as anthony said, it's got to be maine. there are pretty serious rivers near the coast and also acadia and shagg crag.

Let me just add,
I live in Louisville Co, work in Longmont and will be back in Boulder in a month. I paddled today, yesterday and climbed a couple days ago. I live ten minute from eldo and i can be in lyons to paddle in 15 minutes from my office. Pretty sweet. Plenty of kayak options up to class V, but the season is short. The climbing season is long to make up for it.

-Jon
Edit to add. Salida and Durango are sweet choices too. Agreed.

Salida is the place hands down.

canon city will get you closer to a lot of climbing, with kayaking equivalent or better than salida. salida is pretty kick azz though and would be an awesome option. probably tough to find work there though.

what do you do for work? that will help answer the question a bit.

Keene Valley, NY - lifetime of climbing (trad, some sport, bouldering and remote alpine feel mountains). Upper Hudson and Indian rivers are class IV. Moose River runs at class V in the spring. If you want to live closer to kayaking, North Creek is a cute little town. Keene is closer to a ton of roadside cragging. These towns are within an hour drive from each other. Oh, and if you ice climb, Daks is the place to be. The only negative is there are not many job opportunities there and running your own business is pretty tough as everything regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency...