More than 28,000 people a year take a rafting trip down the Colorado River through all or some of the Grand Canyon, but it takes considerable prep work if you're going to make a private, unguided ...

Rafting the Grand Canyon's Colorado River is a bucket-list adventure for most outdoor and travel enthusiasts. Colorado paddlers must reach Diamond Creek in 16 days from Lees Ferry, and trying to ...

A group of adults with disabilities recently completed an extraordinary challenge, rafting 220 miles down the Colorado River ...

How to Plan Your Trip Over a dozen commercial outfitters offer guided river trips through Grand Canyon. Overnight trips range in length from three to 18 days, but due to their popularity many are ...

To travel through the Grand Canyon is to time-travel through the geological history of the Earth for the past 2 billion years. Vividly tinted rock formations display an artist’s palette of red ...

Whitewater rafting down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon in July 2012 was accomplished with the help of five boatloads of biology, botany and geology experts was a little daunting. Kind of ...

Spotting bighorn sheep by the river was a highlight of a Grand Canyon rafting trip. In between rapid-riding, there's plenty of wildlife to see along the Colorado River. (Photo by Doug Hansen via TNS) ...

Lees Ferry is a geological gift of wide, flat, accessible land on both sides of the Colorado River. Mormon pioneers found it the only relatively safe place to cross for hundreds of miles, and in ...

The U.S. Whitewater Rafting Team trains on its custom-built raft in December on the Colorado River. The team was on pace for a record descent of the 277-mile canyon last weekend when a wave broke ...

Scott Knies, of San Jose, California, has been on 10 Grand Canyon river trips over 20 years. He said he’d rather not go with people who are too drunk to care for themselves or others.