Royal Gorge Full Day Trip

Highlights

Inclusions

Itinerary

1. Meeting Location for Raft trips

   30 min

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 31 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5Don’t book with any other company but Performance!

  Our guide, Bundy, made the whole trip fun and exciting. He took care of us and made sure we all had a great experience. Other rafting companies that we saw on the river had trouble getting their rafts stuck and people fell out but not with Performance thank goodness!

  Q7372QZdawnlAugust 2026via Tripadvisor

• 510/10 Would recommend

  I don’t think I could put into words how amazing this team truly is. They took the best care of us! Stu was our guide and personally I think he’s the coolest guy ever! What an experience and I’d do it with this team again any day of the week!

  882dezmJune 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Royal Gorge Rafting Trip

  This was my first time going on a rafting trip and my friends and I had an absolute blast going through the Royal Gorge. Ashley was our guide and she was very patient with us throughout the entire day considering this was our first time doing this. In addition, she was really fun to talk to and very knowledgeable about the environment around us whether it be the fauna, animals or history of the land. I am very excited to come back and hopefully try another rafting trip with this company again.

  danielmF9940SXMay 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Put your worries aside - go!

  Performance tours was a blast! Kurt took us white water rafting on a full day trip. Rapids levels 1, 2, and 3. This was our first white water rafting experience - as a nervous mother of 2 boys 10 & 13 (not helicopter nervous, but wear your helmet and stay out of the street nervous) Kurt was calm and funny and always let us know what was up ahead. Guide for 25+ years in CO, he even did guided tours in an off season in Patagonia. Choose local! And ask to meet sweet sweet Mabel(dog). The lunch was also fantastic and fresh. Was a great time - looking forward to going again in a few years when the boys get older to try out rougher rapids. Our utmost thanks Kurt for putting up with us!

  delonac2025August 2025via Tripadvisor

• 5Great times

  We had Chef/Driver/Guide/Historian Ian. It was a blast of an adventure. Ian was fun, positive, knowledgeable, and super helpful with getting us through the day. Great experience!

  jeffreyvY3223LLAugust 2025via Tripadvisor

• 5Catching waves

  Great experience with great guides. Lunch that was provided for our full day trip was more than enough. Going through the gorge had amazing views and awesome rapids.

  matteM1468VBAugust 2025via Tripadvisor

Know before you go

How it compares in Cañon City

• Its from-price is close to the median of the 23 experiences we list in Cañon City.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 17 of 23.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Cañon City

Cañon City is a Colorado town on the Arkansas River below the Royal Gorge, with a high suspension bridge, dinosaur fossil sites and whitewater nearby.

Cañon City lies on the Arkansas River where it leaves the mountains, at about 1,600 metres, with its streets of brick Victorian buildings and a collection of prisons that earned it a reputation as a prison town. One of them, the former women's prison, is now a museum of Colorado's prison history.

Top-ranked sights in Cañon City: Royal Gorge Bridge & Park.

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