Canoe / Kayak
The Rocky Mountain National Park area features the great Colorado River for excellent canoeing and kayaking, especially in exciting whitewater. The Green River is the primary tributary of the Colorado River, and until 1921 the Colorado River did not technically begin until the Grand and Green Rivers joined together in Utah. In that year the Grand River was renamed as the Colorado River, at the request of the State of Colorado.
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The headwaters of the Colorado River are located in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. From here, at an altitude of 9,010 feet, the Colorado begins it's flow southwestward toward the Gulf o f California and the Pacific Ocean. By the time the river enters the Grand Canyon, at Lee's Ferry, its altitude has fallen to 3,110 feet, dropping over one mile since its beginning. The river will drop another 2,200 feet before it reaches the other end of the Grand Canyon, the Grand Wash Cliffs, 277 miles away.
Canoeing or kayaking trips are a lot of fun on the Colorado River, an experience not to be missed. The Colorado River contains alternating sections of rapids and calm sections. The depth of the river varies from 6 feet to 90 feet, with the average being about 20 feet. The rapids are the shallow sections and the calm sections tend to be the deepest parts. Some deep holes have also formed at the base or foot of some of the more major rapids. The rapids represent only 10 percent of the river's total length through the Grand Canyon, but are responsible for more than half of the total drop in altitude.
May to early June and September are ideal times to go canoeing and kayaking on the Colorado River.
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Other pages you might find helpful:
The Rocky Mountain Canoe Club
The Rocky Mountain Canoe Club is a group of whitewater and scenic canoers. The club plans trips and lessons.
