There’s a moment in the nighttime light-up kayak tour, right at the end, when the guide paddles around and turns out the colored LED lights that rim each boat, leaving the group in darkened silence, floating in the middle of Wallowa Lake beneath the stars. The colorful nighttime excursion has become a bucket list experience in the northeast Oregon tourist town of Joseph, but the local company that runs it, JO Paddle, says the novelty of the boats is just a way to get people into the peaceful environment that surrounds the little mountain town. Hannah Shoffner, who owns the business with her husband, Joshua, said upwards of 2,000 people sign up for the nighttime kayak tours each season, which runs from June to mid-September. Last summer, the wait list was four weeks long, she said. “It’s bucket list,” Joshua said, preparing to take out a group in mid-June. “I have people from California who drive all the way here because their barber told them about it.” Follow the link in our bio f...