Grand Canyon River Trips

Each company offers a variety of trips lasting 3 18 days in large motorized rafts oared rafts paddle rafts and dories.

Grand canyon river trips.

Your grand canyon rafting trip begins in the lower 100 miles of the canyon. Float trips tend to be milder and travel mostly on the smoother part of the colorado river with fewer rapids. The canyon is 277 river miles 446km long and up to 18 miles 29km wide. 1 day commercial river trips half day and full day smooth water trips on the colorado river.

Other grand canyon river rafting trips take on the class 5 rapids head on. An introduction to grand canyon national park. Explore the lower 100 miles of the colorado river on the 3 or 4 day grand canyon trips. The scenery is astounding.

See reviews and photos of river rafting tubing in grand canyon national park arizona on tripadvisor. If you have the desire to travel through the grand canyon via water there is a grand canyon river rafting trip for you. Smooth water raft trips half day and all day trips on the colorado river from glen canyon dam to lees ferry will be provided beginning march 1 2019 by glen canyon rafting hospitality llc. Grand canyon dreams come true.

Most visitors 90 see grand canyon from the south rim from overlooks accessed by free park shuttle buses or by their personal. The following river concessioners provide trips through grand canyon lees ferry to diamond creek 226 river miles 364 km. 2 to 5 day noncommercial river trips noncommercial trips that launch from diamond creek and takeout at lake mead typically are 2 to 5 days in length. For many of our guests rafting down the colorado river though grand canyon is the dream of a lifetime.

Top grand canyon national park river rafting tubing activities. Grand canyon river trip. Because of this regulation oars and grand canyon dories cannot accept a reservation from any individual who has. At wilderness river adventures we pride ourselves in being the premier grand canyon adventure company a reputation we ve earned through unsurpassed guest satisfaction in grand canyon raft trips.

Trips begin at page arizona a drive of 140 miles from the south rim. Grand canyon national park service regulations prohibit individuals from participating in more than one recreational river trip commercial or non commercial per year on the lees ferry to diamond creek section of the colorado river. Experiencing the grand canyon nearly 5 million tourists visit the rim of the grand canyon each summer to look over the edge and witness how immense it is take a few photos visit a gift shop or two then grab an ice cream cone. Here the colorado river s famous rapids though still exciting are a bit tamer.

Massive sandstone cliffs conjure up imaginary shapes.