Des Moines River Overall Fastest Known Paddle: TBD

457 miles (approximately)

This would also be the fastest solo male record. Trevor will be doing a self-supported trip.

Trevor Boyer of Adair, Iowa, (age 37) will be attempting to establish an FKP on this route launching sometime during the week of May 17, 2026.

Start: Below the Talcot Lake Dam (at the carry-in access), north of Dundee, MN.

Finish: Riverfront Park/Goose Landing on the Mississippi River just below the confluence, in Warsaw, IL.

Trevor will paddle a 14-Ft 2007 liquid logic stingray kayak

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About Trevor:

Combat veteran Paddled countless rivers in countless amount of states, from recreational, personal challenge paddles all the way up to river guiding rehabilitation therapy programs for those working recovery programs. Most recently paddled from Atlantic, Iowa to Nebraska and most recently within the last month completed a century bike ride challenge in less than 9 hours

Route Description from Trevor Boyer & Scott Miller:

Trevor and I (Scott Miller) decided to have the route start below the Talcot Lake dam because that’s the start of the official upper river route as defined by the Minnesota DNR, meaning it is usually runnable starting at this point. At the start you are on the longer of the two upper “Forks” of the river; the West Fork. The West Fork and East Fork come together in southern Humboldt County Iowa. Above the city of Des Moines there is a portage around the Saylorville dam that creates the Saylorville Lake reservoir, and there is a second dam, the Red Rock dam, near Pella, Iowa that forms the Lake Red Rock reservoir. There are two known rapid sections, one in Des Moines and the other just north of fort Dodge.