Standedge Tunnel Canoe Trips
Schedule
Sat Aug 30 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Standedge Tunnel, Waters Rd, Huddersfield, HD7 6NQ | Huddersfield, EN
This is a bookable event - click link below to book your space:https://canalrivertrust.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/57241?catID=55835&tickets%5B569452_quantity%5D=1
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Join us on an exciting canoe adventure through the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in the UK.
During this 2-hour guided canoe trip, get close up to one of the seven wonders of the waterways, see first-hand this amazing feat of engineering built over 200 years ago and discover how a 3.25-mile tunnel was constructed deep under the Pennine hills.
Using Canal & River Trust canoes, paddles, helmets and buoyancy aids, our paddlesports instructors will guide you through the tunnel, highlighting and explaining the tunnel and all its unique features. Participants are welcome to use their own buoyancy aids and helmets. Please note you will need experience of paddling in a canoe or kayak.
This is a one-way trip. You will need to make your own way back to the starting point by bus, taxi or 5-mile walk over the top of the tunnel, across Marsden Moor.
Unfortunately we are unable to welcome dogs to this event. But please do look out for other events where dogs are welcome!
TICKETS
To book your space, please purchase your ticket through the link below:
https://canalrivertrust.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/57241?catID=55835&tickets%5B569452_quantity%5D=1
* This ticket price is for either a solo (one person) or tandem (two people) canoe.
* Ticket includes canoe trip through Standedge tunnel. (One way)
* 10:00 trips depart from Marsden
* 13:30 trips depart from Diggle
* Please note tickets can be refunded no less than seven days prior to the date of the trip.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Canal & River Trust aims to provide a safe and enjoyable adventure through the Standedge tunnel for all participants. To ensure this we request that all participants show respect for other participants, our staff and volunteers, our property, and other people that may be affected by their actions.
The Trust may refuse to allow any participants, or ask participants to leave, where the behaviour of that participant breaches these Terms and Conditions.
Only Canal & River Trust craft will be allowed to enter the tunnel.
Participants on through trips must be able to climb a vertical ladder [two metres] up to an escape platform within the tunnel and ability to walk up to 2.5km on uneven ground (in case of emergency).
All participants must be competent paddlers, able to paddle an open canoe forwards and backwards in a straight line. Previous experience is required along with the knowledge of how to act in the event of a capsize.
For the safety of all participants, anyone taking part in the trips are required to attend the safety briefing prior to the trip. Late arrivals will be unable to take part in the trips and tickets will not be refunded.
The Trust does not accept unaccompanied children under the age of eighteen on the trips. All children travelling with their parents or other adults remain the responsibility of their accompanying parents or other adults who should take steps to supervise the children in their charge and make sure that their behaviour does not endanger their own safety or the safety and comfort of other participants.
Under no circumstances shall any participant bring any dangerous goods, weapons or illegal drugs or substances on the trip.
