Colorado Paddling Travel Guide

Colorado Paddling Travel Guide

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• Active and Adventure Guide
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  • Rock Climbing
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  • Rafting
  • Cross-Country Skiing
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• Family Guide
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• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Fly-fishing
  • Horses and Riding

Top Paddling Destinations In Colorado

• Colorado Springs, CO
  

Travel Guides In Colorado

• Denver, CO
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Aspen, CO
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Telluride, CO
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Vail, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Boulder, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Breckenridge, CO
  • Family Guide
• Colorado Springs, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Crested Butte, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Durango, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Fort Collins, CO

Mountain West Paddling States/Provinces

• Colorado
• Idaho
• Montana
• Utah

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
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  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
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Feature Articles

• Rafting Colorado: Big Water Awaits
  Record snowfall over the winter has obviously made for bomber ski conditions throughout Colorado. But what happens when all that snow melts? Paddlers know. Colorado will be blessed with one of the most epic whitewater seasons in recent memory.
• GORP - Dinosaur NM, Utah/Colorado - Monumental Moments
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• Find Your Flow
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  Idaho and Colorado
• GORP - Wild and Scenic Rivers - Colorado
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• GORP - Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area - Colorado
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Trip Ideas

• Rafting Lodore Canyon in Utah's Dinosaur National Monument
  
• A Class Unto Itself: Colorado's Whitewater
  
• Whitewater Wanderlust: Paddling Utah's Colorado and Green Rivers
  
• Colorado's Ski Towns without Snow
  
• Get Wet and Wild in Rocky Mountain Lakes
  Top Denver Day Trips & Overnighters: Arapaho National Recreation Area (96 miles)

Practical Advice

• Adventure Travel 101
  GORPTravel’s Kate Tucker and Linda Long answer our burning questions about the tao of adventure travel
• Sea Kayak Touring: A Packing List
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• Canoe Trips: A Packing List
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• Canoe Trips: A Packing List
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• Sea Kayak Touring: A Packing List
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GORPtravel Adventure Trips & Guided Tours

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  Colorado Rafting - 24 hrs in Brown's Canyon
  AVA's Colorado Rafting
  from $209, 2 days
  An excellent weekend getaway! This trip is our Arkansas Valley Specialty trip set up as an overnight. You'll arrive mid-afternoon the first day, raft...
  
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  Dolores River Rafting Adventure
  Dvorak Expeditions
  from $116, 1-10 days
  The Dolores River flows 230 miles north from the Bear Mountains in Colorado lying deep within the San Juan National Forest. Hosting Arches National...
  
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  Arkansas River Rafting - Multi-Day
  Wilderness Aware
  from $329, 5 days
  These self-contained two to five day trip offers the most continuous Colorado white water rafting available. It is possible to get more rapids only...
  
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  Dolores River Rafting: Ponderosa Gorge
  Wilderness Aware
  from $489, 3 days
  The Dolores River trip offers a unique Colorado white water rafting experience. The beginning of your Colorado white water rafting adventure lies...
  
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  Rocky Mountain Multisport
  The World Outdoors
  from $2098, 6 days
  Rocky Mountain National Park and surrounding wilderness areas are the showstoppers of the West! Emerald lakes, wildflower meadows and old growth...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Paddling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things paddling.
• KayakPro Nemo Sea Kayak
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  H2Aaahh
• Necky Manitou 13
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• Float and Gloat
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  Not every playboat is for whitewater. Maximize your summer fun on lakes, rivers, and oceans with these versatile sit-on-top kayaks.
• Sea Me
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  British adventure filmmaker JUSTINE CURGENVEN, 33, elevates sea kayaking to the highest level of action sports: cool videos!

Fitness

• Revolutionary New Gear
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  Outside's guide to the best new concepts in gear, garb, human performance, and green.
• Fittest Real Athletes – Kyle Daniels
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• Power Stroke
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  Get fit for summer's hottest sport—in less time than you'd think
• America's Best Cities: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  No. 8
• City Without Limits
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  Seattle

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Attractions

Hot Springs Pool

Good For Paddling

401 N. River Rd
Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Description:

Named Yampah Springs—meaning "Big Medicine"—by the Utes, this pool was created in 1888... Read More

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Eagle Bahn Gondola

Lionshead Cir
Vail, Colorado 81657

Description: Eagle Bahn Gondola is Vail Valley's only gondola, and provides the most comfortable passage up Vail... Read More

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Onahu Creek/Green Mountain Loop Trail

Access: Onahu Creek Trailhead, 3 1/4 miles north of the Grand Lake Entrance Station
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Description:

From the trail head there's about a mile's climb through forests of aspen, lodgepole... Read More

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Hotels

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Hotel Jerome, A RockResort

330 East Main Street
Aspen, CO 81611 Map

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from: $105

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Cheyenne Canon Inn

2030 W. Cheyenne Boulvard
Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Map

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The Broadmoor

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1 Lake Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Map

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