Gunnison River

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Trip Overview

Colorado canoeing on the Gunnison River 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 Colorado canoe trip, 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 into Dominguez Canyon, a Wilderness Study Area, one of the most beautiful stops on the river. Hiking into the canyon will reveal deep, cool swimming holes, waterfalls and many ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock art panels). 1-day trips are 15 miles, 2 and 3-day trips are 31 miles, and 4 or 5-day trips are 42 miles. So canoe in Colorado on the Gunnison River with us!

Special Information

RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEMS
This 3-day Denver Zoo workshop and canoe trip is for teachers (K-12) to earn 2 continuing education credits (also open to the general public). You will learn about riparian and wetland ecosystems, exploring interactions among plants and animals that live near or in this river.  Learn to identify animals by the clues they leave.

Instructor Jamie Lovett, School Programs Coordinator, Denver Zoological Foundation, is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a BS in Wildlife Ecology and Management.  She spent 2 years as Environmental Education Extension Agent in Senegal, West Africa, before coordinating school and teacher programs at the zoo.

Centennial Canoe and the Denver Zoo team up with the Colorado School of Mines (303-273-3303) to offer a riparian ecosystem class for teachers (K-12) and for general interest to the public. This combined one-day class session and 3-day canoe trip earns 2 continuing ed credits for teachers. The pretrip class for students will be at the Denver Zoo--Gates Education Center, from 8 am to 4 pm, on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Non teachers may take the full course for the student price and have a reserved seat. Non credit, discounted seats, for the canoe trip only (at regular canoe trip prices), are based on space availability. Ages 15 and up.