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Canoeing in Utah on the Green River through Labyrinth, Horshoe and Trin Alcove Canyons will spark your sense of adventure with opportunities for hiking and exploring, floating in your lifejacket and camping along the river’s edge. During this canoe trip covering 70 miles, you will be dwarfed by high walls of red sandstone and shale deposited during the age of the dinosaurs.  These canyons in the Colorado Plateau are truly magnificent and not soon forgotten. Massive cottonwoods stand on many river bends supporting the huge nests of blue herons, hawks and eagles. You may hike Bowknot Bend, one of the most beautiful stops on the river. Hiking up the canyon will reveal the vastness of the area and the scenery once looked upon by John Wesley Powell as he explored this amazing river.

Your facilitator will be Dr. Andrew Gulliford who is a professor of history and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado where he has been awarded the Roger Peters Distinguished Faculty Award for teaching, research and service. Gulliford teaches popular courses on wilderness, national parks, Western history, and environmental history. He is the author of
America’s Country Schools, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions,
and Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, which won the Colorado Book Award. He edited
Preserving Western History, which was voted one of the best books on the Southwest by the
Tucson-Pima County Library. His book Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure
Anthology won the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in the category of nature/
environment and Best Book on Arizona, as well as the Colorado Book Award for best
anthology. Gulliford edited The Last Stand of the Pack: A Critical Edition, about wolves in
Colorado, which was published by the University Press of Colorado.
His book The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes, published by
Texas A&M University Press, was chosen the Outstanding Nonfiction winner for the 2019
Wrangler Western Heritage Awards sponsored by the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. It also won the Colorado Book Award for history. His
latest book is Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance from the University of Utah
Press, which became the 2024 Finalist for Best Book in Utah History Award from the
Board of State History at the Utah Historical Society.
Gulliford has had led tours across the West by canoe, raft, horseback, van, cruise
ship, bus/coach, private train, and private jet for the Smithsonian Institution, National
Geographic Society, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Rocky Mountain Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS), Great Old Broads for Wilderness, History Colorado, Canyon
Country Discovery Center, Treasure Box Tours, and the San Juan Mountains Association.
Dr. Gulliford has received the National Individual Volunteer Award from the U.S.
Forest Service for wilderness education, and a certificate of recognition from the Secretary
of Agriculture for “outstanding contributions to America’s natural and cultural
resources.” For a decade he held a federal appointment to the Southwest Colorado
Resources Advisory Council of the Bureau of Land Management.
Gulliford writes columns about the Southwest for the Durango Herald, the Cortez
Journal, and the San Juan Record (Monticello, Utah). With the Durango Herald column
“Gulliford’s Travels” he took 1 st place for a news column in the 2023 Top of the Rockies
Journalism Contest sponsored by the Colorado Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists. Dr. Gulliford also appears in history programs for “The Colorado
Experience” television series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS.

Details

River
Green River Canoeing

Rating
Beginner; Ages 6+; Kids Prices 6-12 yr.

Trip Length
6-Day

Hiking
Yes

Trip Availablity
Open to Public

Theme
Geology

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