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Green River through Lodore Canyon
 Within Dinosaur National Monument . . .
the Green River winds its way through three distinct canyons: Lodore, with its red rock walls and famous trio of rapids, Whirlpool which features Jones Hole Creek and echoing cliffs, and Split Mountain which contains geological curiosities and exciting whitewater. First traversed by Major John Wesley Powell in 1869, the Green is still a wonderful introduction to the special world of desert rivers.
Our four-day whitewater rafting trips travel 44 miles through the dramatic sandstone cliffs and enchanting canyons of the imposing Uinta Mountains in Colorado and Utah. The region has quite a history, and it shares it delicately through geologic wonders, sublime rock forms, mysterious fossils and fleeting remnants of Native American pictographs and petroglyphs.
There is abundant wildlife, plenty of opportunity to hike, and rapids that provide lots of thrills with just a few spills; a great adventure for all members of the family.
"I took my four kids ranging in age from 21 to 10 and they all had a wonderful experience, I couldn’t have asked for better. When we left, the youngest was in tears and we all felt the same way. It was like leaving family. Thank you again for a lifetime of memories…oh yes, we’ll be back."
Tod Benninghof
ARTA GUIDE
NOAH WEINSTEIN
 By his reckoning, Noah has taught 1.5 million people how to kiss. Not bad, even for a river guide (most of us can’t count that high). But Noah has an advantage, his dad is a CPA, his mom is a fertility counselor and in the winter he works as Head of Production for Instructables.com, a how-to website with a young (and apparently curious) user demographic. Amongst his other, maybe less impressive achievements are graduating with honors from Brown University with a degree in Environmental Studies and Visual Arts, swimming with octopi in Belize, installing toilets in Spain and herding sheep in Italy. (We – and 1.5 million other people – don’t want to know where he did his research).
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In one word:Jaw-dropping
In another word: Complete
Expect to: Grow closer
Meeting Place: Vernal, UT
Length in days: 4
Length in miles: 44
Gradient: 13 feet/mile
Overall difficulty: III
Highest difficulty: III+ (1)
Rapids/day: ~ 5
Signature Rapid: Hell's Half
 Mile
Types of boats: Oar, paddle
and inflatable kayak
Hiking: A
Scenery: A
Wilderness: A
Fishing: C
Campsites: A
Wildlife: B+
Swimming: B+
For Right Brained People:
The Green River is not only green, it is olive and moss and ochre and crimson and terra cotta and cinnamon and chestnut and aqua and azure. It is Sage Creek and Red Wash and Rainbow Park. It is red cedars, yellow marmots and blue herons. It is a veritable Sherwin-Williams catalog of indescribable beauty. Each mile brings a new vista: sheer rust-red blocks of Uintah Quartzite, (oops, got a little left-brained there, sorry), wide wedding-cake tiers of creamy Weber Sandstone, or jumbled hillsides of juniper and spruce. There are numerous side canyons, grottoes and waterfalls to explore, lots of wildlife to see, and big beaches to enjoy. There are fun rapids with inflated names like Disaster Falls and Hell’s Half Mile to make things exciting and stretches of peaceful flatwater to make things relaxing.
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