For Their 38th Anniversary, Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick Skipped The Grand Gesture For A Canoe

Not every Hollywood anniversary trip needs a private island or a five-star resort. For their 38th wedding anniversary, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick chose something almost defiantly modest: a canoe, a quiet lake and matching plaid overshirts.

Sedgwick shared photos of the outing on Instagram September 9, showing the couple out on the water together, captioning the post “Perfect anniversary weekend. ❤️ Canoe believe it’s been 38 years?!” Neither she nor Bacon named the specific lake or destination in their posts, keeping the location as understated as the trip itself. What’s known is simpler: no crowds, no elaborate itinerary, just two people in a canoe marking nearly four decades together.

That restraint tracks with how the couple has generally approached their time away from film sets and awards shows. Bacon and Sedgwick have long split their time between Los Angeles and a rustic property in Connecticut, a roughly 40-acre farm the two have occasionally shared glimpses of over the years — the kind of low-key, nature-adjacent home base that makes a spontaneous canoe outing feel less like a planned production and more like an extension of how they actually live when the cameras aren’t specifically pointed at them for a magazine shoot.

The choice itself is worth noting, travel-wise. A canoe trip is about as unglamorous as a milestone celebration gets by celebrity standards, and that’s precisely what makes it notable. It requires no reservations at exclusive resorts, no security logistics, no red-carpet backdrop — just proximity to a body of water and a willingness to paddle. For a couple whose relationship predates nearly all of their most famous film and TV work, opting for a plain lake over a five-star destination reads as consistent with the version of their marriage they’ve described publicly: one built more on humor and ordinary companionship than spectacle. Bacon himself has said as much in the past, noting that even something as unremarkable as “walking down the street together just shooting the [expletive] in the middle of the night still feels like a nice place to be” — a sentiment that extends naturally to a quiet paddle on still water.

It’s also a reminder that a meaningful getaway doesn’t require an exotic location to register as a real vacation. A lake close enough to reach without a flight, a canoe instead of a chartered boat, and a weekend with no other agenda than being together checks nearly every box for what makes time away actually restorative — arguably more than a heavily planned trip to a bucket-list destination might. The appeal of a lake trip like this is its lack of production: almost anyone with access to a canoe rental and a nearby body of water can replicate it, which is part of why the photos read as genuinely sweet rather than aspirational in the usual celebrity-vacation sense.