"Hydros Adventures" does a 'one day whitewater trip' near the grand canyon. I was wondering if anyone has taken this tour or has any feedback about this trip. Or perhaps suggestions on another single day rafting trip?

Here's what the website states:
This is the only one-day whitewater rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. Your journey begins with a scenic drive through the Hualapai Indian Reservation along Diamond Creek. This backroad into the Grand Canyon reveals beautiful desert scenery, Wild Burros, and the entrance to the shores of the Colorado River.

Once geared up, your guide will launch your raft onto the mighty Colorado River, whose cool powerful currents will soon bring you back to the shore for a short hike to picturesque Travertine Falls. After exploring the falls, the real adventure begins as you descend several class III-IV white water rapids, including Honeymoon Rapid and its Fangs!

After ten miles of whitewater rafting excitement, you'll stop along the banks of the Grand Canyons Colorado River for a relaxing picnic lunch. For the next part of your journey, the river becomes calm for infinite photo opportunities, wildlife sightings, and a unique cultural history lesson from your Native Hualapai River Guides. Then it's a helicopter flight up to the Grand Canyon's West Rim and a bus ride back to Peach Springs.

Thanks.

I was wondering if anyone has taken this tour or has any feedback about this trip

I haven't taken this tour or hit this stretch of river but a couple of times we've pulled the rafts out at Diamond Creek after 225 miles of rafting (there's a dirt road here that leads out of the canyon), which is where you put in.

Past Diamond Creek my river map shows eight rapids ranging in size from 3 to 6 (on a 1-10 scale ... there are maybe 5 or 6 perfect 10's upriver) so you'll hit some decent whitewater, but nothing really challenging. Past mile 237 the river becomes flat due to the headwaters of Lake Mead.

This is the only one-day trip that will give you a white-water experience (the other one-day trips are below the dam at Page and don't hit rapids). Assuming the price is right my guess is it's a good day trip (I've rafted the entire river several times). I'd go for it, unless the cost is outrageous.

Bill

Cathy, I was just poking around on the 'net after responding to your post (curious about the price I guess) and found this link, which may be a different company but they will use the same boats since only one company is licensed to do the actual river trip:

http://www.rivers-oceans.com/1%20day...n/overview.htm ... they are quoting $351 + tax, which seems high but you do get a chopper ride out of the deal too.

Interesting that the company I linked to rates the rapids as smaller than the one you quoted. The lesser numbers agree with what my river map says, there are no class IV rapids in that 10 mile stretch.

For comparison here's a company we're familiar with that offers many different long trips, their cheapest multi-day trips start at $1,800 for 6 days, so the cost per day is not too far off ...
http://www.azraft.com/gc_datesprices...erOpen=header3

At any rate it would be a really cool day trip. It's not cheap but the scenery will be magnificent.

Bill

Thanks for the info Bill. I think it would be an exciting trip. The only thing keeping me from attepting it is the drive to and from Peach Springs. Maybe I'll plan for a longer trip to the grand canyon and do a multi-day rafting trip another year.

It looks similar to a 3 day (which is actually only a 2 day) raft trip we did with Arizona River Runners. Spending the night in the bottom was a really nice experience. The first day you are really at Bar 10 Ranch. the next day you are on the river. the final day is really only somewhat on the river. We did the short hike to Travertine as well. It actually sounds like a pretty good trip to me.

It looks similar to a 3 day (which is actually only a 2 day) raft trip we did with Arizona River Runners. Spending the night in the bottom was a really nice experience. The first day you are really at Bar 10 Ranch.

This trip begins at river mile 187, so almost 40 more river miles longer than the one-day trip cathy81 is describing. People who have rafted from Lee's Ferry (river mile 0) get off here, are choppered to the Bar 10 and then fly back to Page or Marble Canyon (where we flew when we did it), and new people get on to go this last bit of the canyon.

I agree with spirobulldog that spending a night or two on the river is better than doing just a day trip, if you have the time ...

Bill