Portland Bridge Swim

🚨 Calling all swimmers, kayakers, paddleboarders, cheerleaders, snack distributors, and people who simply enjoy organized aquatic chaos 🚨

The Portland Bridge Swim is back on July 12, 2026! 🌉🏊‍♂️

Have you ever looked at the Willamette River and thought:
👉 “I should swim under ALL those bridges.”
👉 “I own a whistle and could absolutely direct people with confidence.”
👉 “This city needs more swim events.”

Perfect. We need YOU.

We’re recruiting:
🏊 Swimmers (30 slots left)
🙌 Volunteers
🚣 Kayakers & safety crew
📋 People who enjoy clipboards and feeling important
🎉 Enthusiastic humans who can clap loudly at 7am

No Olympic medals required. If you can swim, paddle, cheer, organize, hand out medals, or yell “YOU GOT THIS!” like you mean it, you belong here.

Come be part of one of Portland’s weirdest and most wonderful summer traditions. Because nothing says “community bonding” quite like voluntarily swimming 11 miles through downtown or volunteering to enable all those merpeople before most people have had coffee.

Join us for the fun, the views, the bragging rights, and the inevitable “wait… you did WHAT?” conversations afterward.

Sign up, volunteer, or learn more:

Event Info ~ Portland Bridge Swim An epic ultra-marathon open water swim event held in Portland, OR. The event is just over 11 miles, passing under 12 bridges, and swimmers get to experience the ebb and flow the tidal Willamette River.