6 Kayaking Areas near Petaluma, CA
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Steelhead Beach Regional Park
Forestville
23.3 miles NWSteelhead Beach Regional Park is a Sonoma County Regional Parks day use park on the Russian River north of Forestville, with a gravel bar beach, a year round canoe and kayak put-in, and nearly a mile of trails through riparian woods. There is no lifeguard
Canoe, Hike, Kayak, Swim 0.2 mi
Sunset Beach River Park
Forestville, California
24.7 miles NWA classic Russian River swimming hole with a pebble beach, shallow and deep sections, Redwood Forest views, paddle boarding, fishing, and picnicking — quieter on weekdays, popular on weekends.
Kayak, Swim
Monte Rio Beach
Monte Rio
25.9 miles NWFree public gravel beach on the Russian River just east of the Monte Rio Bridge, run by the Monte Rio Recreation and Park District. No lifeguards; loaner life vests on site and summer-only lower parking lot.
Canoe, Kayak, Swim
Patterson Point Preserve
Villa Grande
26.9 miles NWA free, two-acre nonprofit preserve with two small beaches on the Russian River at Villa Grande near Monte Rio, open for daytime swimming with no lifeguards. Check posted algae and bacteria signs first.
Canoe, Kayak, Swim
Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach
Healdsburg
28.3 miles NWA Sonoma County Regional Parks beach on the Russian River where a seasonal flashboard dam, craned onto a foundation in use since 1955, backs the river into a wide swimming lagoon just below the steel truss Memorial Bridge. The boards go in no earlier than
Canoe, Kayak, Swim
Willow Creek Environmental Campground
Duncans Mills, California
28.8 miles NWA sandy-banked riverside campground on the Russian River near the California coast — cool and breezy even in summer, with kayak and tube launch access and a mix of shallow and deep swimming spots.
Hike, Kayak, Swim
