In the early 80's prior to moving to the train station, we operated out of a much smaller shop, which was located down the road next to a chiropractor's office.  We still remember the doctor's clients commenting about the strange smells wafting out of our fiberglass repair shop, which was also our showroom, office, and ... well, our everything.
   We've grown from a small canoe rental business that also sold a few boats in the summer to a full-service, year-round paddlesports shop and livery business that takes a small army to run.  Few days go by that we don't receive numerous compliments from customers who are overwhelmed by the boat and accessory inventory.  Still, we are ever on the lookout for anything new, exciting, unique, and sometimes odd in the paddlesports world.

   We still produce strange smells from our ever improving repair and outfitting shop, where we're usually experimenting with some new repair materials or techniques.

   The things born of necessity and refined through use and time seem to be the best, and that's exactly where our boat trailer products and paddling lessons business come from.

   So, if you need a new boat, a new gadget to go with your boat, a trailer or roof rack to haul your boat, to get your boat repaired, to learn how to paddle your boat, or a boat to rent for the day -- Check Us Out!

   Most of all, we're like you -- trying to find enough time to paddle, 'cause paddling is the reason we're all here to start with.

   We're often asked what landmark to look for to find Blue Mountain Outfitters.  Well, the fact of the matter is, we are the landmark -- the historic Marysville train station.  Our home was built at the turn of last century.  At  approximately the same time, another area land mark was constructed just downstream on the Susquehanna, the Rockville Bridge the longest stone arch bridge in the world.

   The train station served as the hub of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Capital Region until it's takeover by Conrail.  The station continued to serve railroad  passengers until Conrail sold it in the early 60's.  First it was offered to the Borough of Marysville for a sum of $1.00, but to the regret of today's residents, the offer was turned down.  A lengthy period of revolving ownership and uses followed including: a lumberyard, an antique shop, an opticians shop, a small engine repair shop, and the one most remembered -- a drive-through beer distributor.  After moving from another location, Blue Mountain took up residence in 1988, purchased the building in 1992 and is here to stay!

   You'll still find evidence of the old P&R Railroad Days, and maybe a beer bottle or two (from the distributor days, of course), but today it is a paddler's shop!

   Shop manager. Set the record of being the longest running employee at BMO, and that's not counting the kayak classes he did for us years before that! Kris became irreplaceable from the beginning. In between concocting new potions in the repair shop, rewriting our brochures and web page, running our lesson program, building new boat racks, bailing Mary out on the computer, and fixing everything that a 100-year-old building can throw at him, he still finds time to paddle more than any of us...and he doesn’t even drink coffee! We managed to pry the kayak paddle that he’s been wielding since the 50’s out of his hands long enough to try out a solo canoe, and he’s now a hooked one-blader as well, doing things on the river that his carbon-fiber canoe probably wasn’t meant to do! When he’s not on the water or here at the shop look for him in the hills, either mountain biking or tearing it up on his mountain sled...another Kris invention!