Colorado Boating
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Forum Name: Whitewater Forum
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Printed Date: 21 Sep 2025 at 11:11pm
Topic: Colorado Boating
Posted By: megspk
Subject: Colorado Boating
Date Posted: 30 May 2013 at 11:10am
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Heading to Colorado mid June and looking for people to boat with! We'll be in the Salida, Buena Vista, and Golden areas of Colorado. Also looking to perhaps go to Poudre Canyon. Any river beta, looking for Grade 3 runs, or anyone who'd like to show us around would be awesome!
Cheers, Megan  ------------- “A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.” -Unknown |
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Posted By: theim
Date Posted: 30 May 2013 at 6:43pm
| The Arkansas around Salida and Buena Vista have a bunch of great runs. The Numbers section and the Royal Gorge are amazing but contain a couple IV's. In the Gorge you can pretty much walk around anything you don't want to run via the train tracks, but be careful as they run tourists trains in there still. Brown's Canyon stretch is a III along with multiple other stretches being class III's. Also, Buena Vista has a great WW park along with Salida, Pueblo, and Golden. |
Posted By: Kyle K
Date Posted: 30 May 2013 at 8:59pm
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Hi Megan, ditto on everything theim said. I'll be in CO while you're here and would be happy to boat with you guys. Sending you a PM. ------------- "I used to be somebody, now I'm somebody else." Bad Blake |
Posted By: megspk
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2013 at 1:10pm
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I hope the fires aren't too close to any cool runs!! ------------- “A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.” -Unknown |
Posted By: Kyle K
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2013 at 4:00pm
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Unfortunately they are by the Royal Gorge. The access highway is currently shut down. In addition, someone drive into Clear Creek, closing done the local class IV after work run. Car still in the creek, no survivors but it's unclear how many were in the car. Crazy day for Front Range rivers. ------------- "I used to be somebody, now I'm somebody else." Bad Blake |
Posted By: megspk
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2013 at 3:33pm
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Kyle-you still in Colorado? We are heading down to the Arkansas in the next couple days. .... ------------- “A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.” -Unknown |
Posted By: SPerillo
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2013 at 6:57pm
| Do yourself a favor and hit up the Poudre. My old stomping grounds....CO's only wild and scenic river. Less of a sh*tshow than the Ark. Though I love the ark too. Do Stevens down. Check out the Mishawaka..concerts every weekend. The Poudre is a must IMO |