Rating
Beginner
Minimum Age
years
Price
Adult: $215
Kids (6-12): $160
Pre May1st Price
Adult: $200
Kids (6-12): $160
Deposit: $100/person
Trip Itinerary
- Day 1: Meet your guide staff at the designated put-in at Escalante Canyon Bridge, located 35 miles south of Grand Junction, CO and enjoy a continental breakfast before packing your dry bags and loading the gear in the canoes.
- Run a car shuttle to the Whitewater takeout & return to the put-in for the safety talk and paddling instructions before launching. Shortly after launching, you will begin paddling past the towering red sandstone walls of Escalante Canyon.
- Enjoy the thrill of paddling through Hail Mary’s Rapid (or you can choose to skirt around the side). Paddle downriver until approximately noon and enjoy lunch on the river’s edge, maybe catching a glimpse of an eagle or a desert sheep.
- After lunch, paddle past Undertaker Rock & enter the majestic Dominguez Canyon, a Wilderness Study Area. You may stop for a short hike in Dominguez Canyon before paddling further down river. Factors that influence this decision are weather, pace of the group, campsite availability, etc. The highlights in Dominguez Canyon may include ancient Indian petroglyphs, waterfalls, pools, & wildlife. In the late afternoon, you will make camp near the river’s edge and possibly take a short hike, relax, play, or float in the river.
- Happy Hour begins at 5:30 p.m. and shrimp, cheese, crackers and wine are served.
- Dinner is served around 7 p.m. followed by campfire activities that may include games, singing, western tall tales, or guitar playing.
- Day 2: You will break down camp after a hearty breakfast and paddle out of the canyons where the scenery begins to turn much greener with vegetation.
- After numerous water fights, river barging, joke telling, & just having good fun, you typically reach the Whitewater takeout between 2-4 p.m. after lunch on the last day of the trip, allowing time to return home.
