Holiday River Expeditions offers 20 trips/accommodations
Mountain Biking and Colorado River Rafting Combination Trip - White Rim Trail and Cataract Canyon
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Mountain Biking and Colorado River Rafting Combination Trip - White Rim Trail and Cataract Canyon
United States
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7 Days • from $2,035* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) If you're not afraid of a sore muscle or two, why ride to the river in a van when you could be flying along the White Rim Trail on a bike? Join us on one of the best multi-sport active adventure trips available, the White Rim Trail biking and Cataract Canyon rafting combination trip! Sixty-five miles of biking from mesa top to river bottom will show you the Moab-area multi-day ride that has become the standard against which all others… 1 testimonial & more |
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Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park on the Colorado River
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Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park on the Colorado River
United States
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5 Days • from $1,485* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Cataract Canyon rafting is an anomaly. Its rapids rank among those of the Grand Canyon in power and difficulty. In fact, the river becomes unruly during the run off in May and June.Yet Cataract Canyon contains mile after mile of rafting through canyons where you are awe struck, not at whitewater, but the deep multicolored canyons of this section of Canyonlands National Park. Side canyon hikes to ruins and petroglyphs delight you as you head toward the Confluence of the… 1 testimonial & more |
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Westwater Canyon on the Colorado River
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Westwater Canyon on the Colorado River
United States
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2 Days • from $640* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Westwater's rapids on this trip are created when the swift flowing Colorado River is forced through Granite Canyon, a narrow seam of polished black schist capped with red slickrock towers. Virtually unknown 30 years ago, Westwater Canyon has become a favorite choice for its pace, rhythm, and intensity.One of the advantages of a river trip is the flexibility of the daily itinerary. It can vary widely from one trip to the next based on group desires, Mother Nature, and courtesy… 1 testimonial & more |
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Lodore Canyon in Dinosaur National Monument on the Green River
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Lodore Canyon in Dinosaur National Monument on the Green River
United States
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4 Days • from $1,270* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Lodore was the first major canyon encountered by John Wesley Powell and his men on their 1869 expedition. Powell's adventures live on in the rapids he named: Disaster Falls, Triplet Falls and Hells Half Mile. Set aside as an American treasure in 1938 under the National Park system, this canyon is a sanctuary for bighorn sheep, deer and other friendly critters.Your 44-mile trip starts at the Gates of Lodore where two 800-foot buttresses mark the beginning of a series of… more |
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Naturalist Stargazer Specialty Trip - Desolation Canyon on the Green River
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Naturalist Stargazer Specialty Trip - Desolation Canyon on the Green River
United States
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6 Days • from $1,673* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) This Desolation Canyon river rafting trip, as its name implies, floats you through some of the most remote areas left in the continental United States. The Tavaputs Plateau, through which the Green River cuts Desolation and Gray canyons, boasts one of the largest roadless areas in the American west, making the region a priceless preserve of quality dark skies. Spend your days exploring outlaw hideouts, ancient indigenous cultural sites, splashing through consistent, fun whitewater, and in the evenings let your… more |
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San Juan River Rafting in Navajoland
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San Juan River Rafting in Navajoland
United States
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5 Days • from $1,285* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Pound for pound, the San Juan River is the fastest moving river in the United States, dropping an average of eight feet per mile. Sandstone and limestone walls frame the narrow canyon as the river snakes through the countless goosenecks for which it is famous. Today the river borders Navajoland, although it was once the home of the ancient pueblo civilization. Scores of ruins and petroglyphs line the canyon walls.The San Juan, with a lot of small rapids, is especially… 1 testimonial & more |
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Utah Family Rafting on the Green River through Desolation Canyon
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Utah Family Rafting on the Green River through Desolation Canyon
United States
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5 Days • from $1,558* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Desolation and Gray canyons are on the National Register of Historic Places because the famous and infamous were drawn here. In 1830, trapper Denis Julien left graffiti on the canyon walls. Almost 40 years later, John Wesley Powell traveled through the canyons and christened them. Soon after Powell passed through, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid found this a great place to escape justice. Today, if you really want to get away, there's no better place than the Green River… 1 testimonial & more |
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White Rim Trail Mountain Biking in Canyonlands National Park
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White Rim Trail Mountain Biking in Canyonlands National Park
United States
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4 Days • from $1,160* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) A must in any mountain biker's rites of passage is the White Rim Trail. Riding on a sandstone bench through a land called "Island in the Sky" you will pass Mussleman Arch, Monument Basin, Turks head, Candlestick Tower, and White Crack, a perch 1000 feet above the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers in the center of Canyonlands ... some believe the center of the universe. If you only had time for one mountain bike trip in your life,… 1 testimonial & more |
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Kayak Workshop through Desolation Canyon
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Kayak Workshop through Desolation Canyon
United States
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6 Days • from $1,835* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Are you looking for more than an adventure vacation? Then this kayaking experience through some of the most magnificent wilderness canyons of the Southwest is the answer. Prior kayaking experience is not necessary, but a kayak swimming pool class is suggested to help speed your learning on the river. These classes can be found at most colleges and universities. You should be in excellent physical condition and comfortable around water. Andy Thunell from Rapid Progression Kayak School will provide the instruction and… more |
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Moab Mountain Biking / Westwater Canyon Rafting on the Colorado River
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Moab Mountain Biking / Westwater Canyon Rafting on the Colorado River
United States
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4 Days • from $1,260* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Moab, Utah and its surrounding regions are world renowned for their incredible beauty and world-class mountain biking. Our La Sal Mountain loop encompasses a variety of riding conditions from the pine tree forested trails on day one, to the descent into Onion Creek and the desert valley on the second day.Westwater's rapids on this trip are created when the swift flowing Colorado River is forced through Granite Canyon, a narrow seam of polished black schist capped with red slickrock towers.… 1 testimonial & more |
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Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park
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Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park
United States
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6 Days • from $1,600* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Cataract Canyon rafting is an anomaly. Its rapids rank along with those of the Grand Canyon in power and difficulty. In fact, the river becomes unruly during the run off in May and June.Yet Cataract Canyon contains mile after mile of rafting through canyons where you are awe struck, not at whitewater, but the deep multicolored canyons of this section of Canyonlands National Park. Side canyon hikes to ruins and petroglyphs delight you as you head toward the Confluence of… more |
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Women's Rafting and Yoga on the Green River through Lodore Canyon
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Women's Rafting and Yoga on the Green River through Lodore Canyon
United States
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4 Days • from $1,380* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) There isn't a better yoga studio for a women's river rafting trip than Lodore Canyon in the heart of Dinosaur National Monument. Cradled between two steep and beautiful canyon walls, this section of the Green River winds through the Unita Mountains and features some of the best beaches in the West! These picturesque refuges are ideal places to make camp, practice yoga, and restore your inner balance. Let our expert river-guides-turned-chefs prepare your meals to keep your body and mind… 1 testimonial & more |
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Retro River Rafting through the Gates of Lodore
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Retro River Rafting through the Gates of Lodore
United States
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4 Days • from $1,270* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Retro river rafting? Is this just some kind of alliterative joke? Does that mean we're going to be running rapids with bucket boats and cooking over fire? Just how retro are we going? Back to the days of John Wesley Powell's heavy oak boats? Or way back to the time when mountain men were trapping beavers in buffalo boats?Okay, well, we probably won't be going quite that retro. But this trip will be a bit of an homage to the… more |
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Maze Mountain Bike Trip In Canyonlands National Park
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Maze Mountain Bike Trip In Canyonlands National Park
United States
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4 Days • from $1,325* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) The Maze bike trip is no Sunday afternoon bike ride through the park! Biking into the Maze and other untamed country in Canyonlands National Park provides mountain bikers and hikers the complete experience... solitude, unparalleled beauty, clean air, and some of the most challenging bike terrain anywhere. The Maze bike trip takes you into places where you'll view sheer vertical uplifts, and plunging gorges are part of a landscape that once seen, can never be forgotten. The Maze bike tours… more |
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San Rafael Swell Mountain Bike Trip
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San Rafael Swell Mountain Bike Trip
United States
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4 Days • from $1,140* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, Arches, Natural Bridges, Dinosaur, Capitol Reef, Grand Staircase... in a state brimming with national parks, it's easy to overlook another national treasure. Utah locals call it 'THE SWELL' a three thousand-foot fold of sandstone and shale on the edge of the Colorado Plateau. San Rafael Swell mountain biking tours take you into a place where it's hidden canyons provided sanctuary to old west outlaw Butch Cassidy. Biking into the San Rafael Swell's red-wall canyons are your sanctuary… more |
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Yampa River Rafting in Dinosaur National Monument
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Yampa River Rafting in Dinosaur National Monument
United States
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5 Days • from $1,405* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) The Yampa is WILD: the last un-regulated river in the Colorado River system. Despite attempts by the Bureau of Reclamation and Congress, the only dam ever constructed on the Yampa River was built by Mother Nature and even that was temporary. On June 9th, 1965, a massive flash flood and debris flow carried thousands of tons of rock down Warm Springs Draw, completely blocking the river channel. The river slowed upstream of the obstruction, and the current snarled and boiled… more |
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Naturalist Stargazer Specialty Trip - Cataract Canyon
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Naturalist Stargazer Specialty Trip - Cataract Canyon
United States
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6 Days • from $1,600* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) The Colorado River through Cataract Canyon traverses one of the most spectacular red rock landscapes in the desert southwest. By day, float through sandstone spires, massive eroded cliffs, and towering buttes. At night, let your eyes tune in to the equally spectacular star-scape, visible in stunning clarity from the bottom of Canyonlands National Park, an International Dark Sky Park.Cataract Canyon is famous for its whitewater rapids, but the calm water that leads up to the rapids is special in its… more |
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Naturalist Stargazer Specialty Trip - Lodore Canyon
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Naturalist Stargazer Specialty Trip - Lodore Canyon
United States
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4 Days • from $1,270* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) This whitewater rafting and stargazing trip on the Green River through Lodore Canyon combines the best of the day with the splendors of the night. Running through the heart of Dinosaur National Monument, an International Dark Sky Park, Lodore provides visitors with the opportunity to see a quality of dark, starry sky that exists only in isolated pockets in remote corners of the United States. During the day, we'll navigate translucent blue-green water through class II - IV rapids, hike… 1 testimonial & more |
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Yampa River Rafting with Del Sol Music Quartet
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Yampa River Rafting with Del Sol Music Quartet
United States
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5 Days • from $1,565* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) In 2024, we're classing it up, combining the magic of Yampa River rafting with the uplifting joy of classical music. Join Holiday and members of the Del Sol String Quartet for five days of sunrise string quartet concerts, endless canyon scenery, and exhilarating whitewater. A string quartet that thrives outside the concert hall, Del Sol is all about music that brings out the endorphins. The Yampa River is, too. It's the only major river in the Colorado River system that… more |
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Ruby and Westwater Canyon Rafting On The Colorado River
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Ruby and Westwater Canyon Rafting On The Colorado River
United States
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3 Days • from $830* per person
Provider: Holiday River Expeditions (3 testimonials) Often called a miniature Grand Canyon, this segment of the Colorado River is the answer for the person who is short on time but wants it all...a wilderness canyon so stunningly beautiful you 'll have no doubt but to leave the world behind. The finale - world class whitewater. Depending upon water level and trip length, you will see from eighteen to fifty miles of the Colorado's finest beaches, side canyons, and campsites. A century ago pioneer river explorers Than… 1 testimonial & more |
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