Grand Canyon Adventures: Relax With a One-Day Rafting Trip

If you are ever in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon, do yourself a favour and enjoy a Grand Canyon Float Trip. Grand Canyon water rafting doesn't require any experience with rafts or other small boats. As a vacationer, the only thing that you will be required to do is to enjoy the views, socialize with other passengers and ride down the river in a motorized raft.

You won't have to worry about high rapids when it comes to this Grand Canyon float trip because it was designed for the whole family. This specific Grand Canyon rafting tour, which drifts down a quiet river, is for anyone who is over the age of three. You'll share your raft with 20 to 22 other passengers.

This Grand Canyon water raft tour lasts all day long. Beginning around 6:30 a.m., it lasts about 12 hours. You will ride in a minivan or luxurious bus through the beautiful East Rim and Navajo Reservation.

Then you will go through the brilliantly Painted Desert until you get to the Glen Canyon Dam. At this point, you and the other tour participants will get into your motorized raft.

After a two-hour river voyage, you'll land and have ample opportunity to study the ancient Native American artwork inscribed on the mountainsides. Once you have seen enough artwork, you and the other passengers will dine while sitting on the beach. When you and the other passengers have finished dining on lunch, you will re-enter the raft and keep on floating down the quiet river. When the raft gets to Lee's Ferry, you will experience a scenic drive back to your hotel room via the minivan or bus.

You can also go in a different direction on this Grand Canyon float trip. You can travel from Lee's Ferry to the Glen Canyon Dam. After picking you up, your coach will drive along the South Rim of the canyon and then return you to your hotel. You can go on each of these Grand Canyon float trips during the periods of March 1st through November 15th.

If bus rides are not your favorite form of transportation or you have experienced a Grand Canyon rafting trip in the past, then you might want to do a Colorado water rafting tour instead. Or, a Grand Canyon Old West Jeep tour is another option. You could even combine both tours into one totally terrific 12-hour day. Your jeep ride will pick you up at either the location of Flagstaff at seven in the morning or at Williams at six thirty in the morning. You will then be taken on a two hour tour of the Navajo Reservation and Coconino Forest until you reach Page, Arizona. After you leave the isolated city of Page, Arizona, you will drive through a two mile tunnel through the mountains until you get to your destination of Glen Canyon Dam. You'll then board a raft at the dam and begin your relaxing 15-mile trip down the smooth Colorado River. After stopping for a boxed lunch, you'll have only a short walk to view ancient Native American art. In addition, you will have time to do a few other fun and exciting things such as swim on the beach.

Then, it's back into your raft to continue your smooth-water adventure on to Lee's Ferry. At this time, your will ride the bus back to the start point of Flagstaff or Williams. But, before you start back for the return trip, you will go to the Cameron Trading Post. This is where you can get a few souvenirs for your return trip, as well as a few snacks for the road. You can get these tours during the period of March 15th and October 15th.

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