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Colorado River Canoeing: Denver Museum, Dinosaurs

Jul 13 - 15, 2019

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Trip Fees

Adult

$436

Kids

$406

Discount*

Student

Deposit**

$100

** Deposits must be made per person.

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Experience fascinating rock formations from the age of the dinosaurs as you paddle your way along the Colorado River with Denver Museum educator, Samantha Sands, as your time-travel guide. Camping along the river's banks and exploring deep box canyons will leave you awed by the immensity of geologic time. This stunning journey will inspire and exhilarate nature lovers, history buffs, and explorers alike. Open to the public. Kids at Play Video

This spectacular canyon country of the Colorado Plateau, including Ruby and Horsethief Canyons, features majestic walls of red sandstone and offers some of the best canoeing in Colorado. The river is gentle with occasional small Class I+ rapids to add spice to the journey (Class I is easy and Class V is difficult). Roads do not bound this portion of the river and the steep-walled canyons are accessible only from the river, giving the area a true wilderness setting.

You’ll be amazed at stands of shiny granite sculpted by water through the ages while paddling or floating in your life jacket past the remnants of ancient metamorphic rock, called Black Rock. Camping along the river’s banks and exploring a deep box canyon will leave you awed by the immensity of geologic time and the silence of the wilderness. This is BIG COUNTRY and a geologist’s paradise. Many of our educational classes focus on this area. This stretch of river near Grand Junction, CO, is ideal for canoeing. The Colorado River canoe trip is 26 miles.