Greetings. Coming to Colorado next week and will be visiting Estes Park, Vail, Aspen areas, with stops in between. Looking for recommendations on the best place to go whitewater rafting as a true beginner? And estimated cost per person?

No matter where you go, book the Class II or III section of the river. Don't book the Class 4 section. If you follow that advice, you'll be fine.

Great, thanks for the tip.

Go Class III - Class IV will be too scary and Class II is practically floating, not really "whitewater". We took 5 and 7- year olds on a Class III trip and they were fine.

The bigger problem is that the white water rafting is over. You can find a float trip but any type of w water is done.

We went down the Arkansas? river was it - out of Vail - and while they tried to trump up the rapids as being class III or IV- (this was in the summer) - it was more like a float trip - less than Class II. Juast be sure to tell the company/guides what type of raft trip you are looking for.

Later I went river rafting in Costa Rica - now there were some rapids.

Agree fmden. Didn't see your post when I was writing mine.

Thank you for all the replies. Sounds like its going to be raft trip, which I sure will be still fun not as dangerous though.