5 Day Yampa River Overnight White Water Rafting Trip
Yampa River White Water Rafting Vacation.
This five-day Yampa River trip is one of the most sought after rafting adventures in the world
Tiger Wall Yampa River
Roaring 72 miles through a colorful 2,000-foot deep sandstone gorge in Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument, the Yampa River has carved a spectacular maze of canyons unsurpassed for its epic beauty and wilderness. River craft is the only means of traversing this rock and wildlife fantasy land and National Geographic Traveler Magazine calls its “scope and grandeur too big to take in at one time.”
Yampa Canyon has a scale that rivals the Grand Canyon
The Yampa River is the last major free-flowing river in the entire Colorado River system. Due to its natural flows the only time you can raft the Yampa River is in May and early June. Fun and splashy waves can be found throughout the trip, but Warm Springs is the longest and most difficult rapid to navigate.
Book your exclusive Yampa River rafting trip today as space and launch dates are limited. This multi-day rafting trip through Dinosaur National Monument departs from Adrift Adventures in Jensen, Utah, near the entrance to Dinosaur National Monument.
Five-Day Yampa River Rafting Trip:
This five-day Yampa River trip meanders 72 miles through Yampa Canyon, Whirlpool Canyon and Split Mountain Gorge. These deep sandstone canyons are remote, pristine wilderness in the heart of Dinosaur National Monument. All food and gear will be packed on rafts and brought to a remote camp each night.
Adrift Adventures provides transportation from the meeting place to the start of the river trip, and then back to the Adrift Adventure store at trips end. Professional guides and all boating related equipment are provided, including a watertight duffel bag for personal gear. All meals from lunch on day one to lunch on day five are included and vegetarian options are always available.
Adrift Adventures Sponsored The Friends of the Yampa to produce this video
The Last One – A Yampa River Awareness Documentary
Explore the free-flowing Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument
Class III-IV
The Yampa River is the last major free-flowing tributary of the Colorado River system and relies on the spring snow melt from the Colorado Rockies to be navigable. The serenity experienced on this Yampa River trip rivals that of the Grand Canyon. Be sure to book in advance as the Yampa River rafting season is short and space is limited.
Begin rafting the Yampa River in Colorado and end on the Green River in Utah
This five-day whitewater rafting trip meanders 72 miles through three beautiful canyons and two rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. It might feel like you are exploring another planet as you float down the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument, because the breathtaking scenery is like nothing you have ever seen. Spend the first three days exploring Yampa Canyon on the Yampa River in Colorado. Then enter the Green River on day four and follow part of John Wesley Powell’s route through Whirlpool Canyon and Split Mountain Gorge.
Raft & camp on the Yampa River
Camping in the canyon is one of the highlights of any rafting trip and nowhere is that more true than on a Yampa River rafting trip through Dinosaur National Monument. Each afternoon your group will camp in a different riverside location allowing time for you to explore and hike. Enjoy learning about the unique geology, history, wildlife, Indian rock art and dwellings or just relax by the river. There are no set schedules so you get to create your own adventure.
This may be the last opportunity to explore the wild Yampa River through Dinosaur National Monument
There is a water diversion pipeline project being proposed. If this project is implemented, no one will ever have the opportunity to explore the mighty Yampa River through Dinosaur National Monument in its natural state again.
Raft the Yampa River the Adrift Adventures way
Adrift Adventures offers small, all inclusive and Leave No Trace rafting trips on the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument. Your guides will navigate rapids, educate you about the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument, set up camp and prepare exquisite meals. No experience is necessary and all rafting equipment is provided.
YAMPA RIVER RAFTING VACATION ITINERARY
Day Prior to Your Rafting Trip:
We encourage you to stop by the Adrift Adventures Rafting Center before 6pm so that you can pickup your waterproof gear bag and meet us. Your gear bag allows you to pack the night before the trip.
Yampa River Rafting Vacation.
Day 1:
8:00am – Meet at Adrift Adventures Rafting Center, 9 miles east of Vernal on US Hwy 40 in Jensen, Utah. Guests are on their own for breakfast prior to meeting Adrift guides. An earlier meeting time can be arranged if you flew into the area. Come with your dry bag packed. The shuttle to the put-in will depart from the Adrift Adventures Rafting Center. Upon your arrival at the river put-in your trip leader will provide a safety orientation before you start rafting through Yampa Canyon. Lunch and dinner is provided. Camp at a road-less wilderness site in the canyon.
Day 2:
Enjoy rafting on the Yampa River with optional short hikes to observe wildlife and canyon geology. Run Tepee and other rapids. Camp at a remote beach on the river and enjoy an optional hike up a narrow side canyon. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
Day 3:
After breakfast we float and stop to explore a cave with Indian artifacts. Then we are off to run the biggest rapid of the trip – Warm Springs. Camp near Echo Park. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
Day 4:
Coffee and breakfast is ready early and after a short float we enter the Green River and run the rapids of Whirlpool Canyon. At camp is one of the best hikes of the trip to a waterfall and Indian rock art. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
Day 5:
We launch on the river and float out of Whirlpool Canyon into the exciting rapids of Split Mountain Gorge. You should arrive at the river trip takeout around 3pm where you will be shuttled back to your car at the Adrift Adventures Rafting Center arriving around 4pm. Breakfast and lunch provided.
