Colorado River Whitewater Rafting: Half Day Trip
- 3h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
The Colorado River is our favorite family-friendly rafting trip. This section of the Colorado River offers scenic views including meadows, valleys, rolling ranch lands and steep canyon walls with wildlife including bald eagles, deer, beavers, and big horn sheep - always something to see. Upper Colorado River Rafting provides mild Class I-II rapids and occasional Class III rapids at higher spring water flows. Beginning as snowmelt high in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Rockies give birth to the legendary Colorado River. Downstream of the Park, the river intensifies through the famed Class 5 “Gore Canyon”, but below, the river gentles where our Colorado River Rafting trips begin. An introduction to white water rafting for families with children and grandparents, any group looking for a scenic Colorado adventure will enjoy this raft trip. We are proudly a smaller operation offering intimate Colorado adventures. Our raft guides are highly trained, experienced, and State certified.
Inclusions
What's included
- Colorado Rafting Company guides, All safety & rafting equipment
What's not
- food, snacks, water, guide gratuity, insurance (trip, rescue, medical)
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
4.8
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Ratings come from 33 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Showing reviews written in English.
3So-so
I wouldn’t call this whitewater rafting. It was a float. Our guide, Julia, was great and had a lot of interesting things to point out. We spent a lot of time just waiting around for things to happen. Seemed very disorganized. Guides did seem to know what they were doing and safety protocols.
5Birthday Trip
10/10 experience!! We loved every single second of our trip even in the rain. We took the 1/2 day trip. Perfect amount of time on the water. Can’t beat the scenery and our guide, Landon, was so fun. We will definitely be back! Thanks for making our girl’s birthday super special and one to remember.
5We had a wonderful time!...
We had a wonderful time! Friendly, well-informed guides, pleasant trip down the river (nothing too tough). Highly recommend!
5Child’s First White Water Adventure
Great time! Perfect for a family and Perfect for a family concerned about rafting for the first time.
5Colorado Rafting
The company is well run with very experienced guides. We greatly enjoyed our day with our guide Ethan. He made us feel very safe and was a joy to spend time with. This is a great family trip.
5Great Ride!
Great experience. Tanner was our guide and he was super, knowledgeable and funny! The Upper Colorado River was tame, but Tanner made it more exciting by spinning us around and going down the rapid backwards. Highly recommend!
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- **IMPORTANT MEETING LOCATION NOTE** Book with Colorado Adventure Guides HQ offices in Silverthorne, but MEET AT our boathouse, Colorado Rafting Company, at Rancho Del Rio, 4199 Trough Road, Bond, CO 80423. Call a day before for detailed meetup instructions.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 32 travellers
- Operated by
- Colorado Adventure Guides
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Vail
- Its from-price is 66% below the median of the 41 experiences we list in Vail.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 2 of 41.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Vail
Vail is a ski resort town in the Colorado Rockies, built in the 1960s as an Alpine-style village, with mountain biking and hiking in summer.
Vail was founded in 1962 by Pete Seibert, a veteran of the army's 10th Mountain Division, and designed as a pedestrian village in the style of an Alpine ski town, with timbered buildings, cobbled squares and a stream running through. It sits at about 2,500 metres in the Gore Creek valley, beneath the Gore Range, and is one of the largest ski areas in North America, with wide Back Bowls to the south.
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