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Backpacker Magazine – August 2010
New Life List: Ultimate Family Paddling Adventure
World-class scenery, luxe camping, and easy paddling await your family on the Green River in Canyonlands. Your kids will remember this forever.
Broad Bend, near the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers. (Tom Till)
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Payoff We hit the water with a small armada of watercraft and 17 people, including eight kids. For five days, we enjoyed water fights, paddling, beach games, and riverside campsites. And the kids would occasionally look around—really, we saw this—and say, “Wow this is gorgeous.” Afterward, your child might even tell you (as mine did), “That was the coolest trip of my life! Can we do it again next week?” —M. Lanza
Do it The Green River snakes for 52 placid (read: flatwater, perfect for canoes packed with luxury items) miles through Stillwater Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, below a backdrop of redrock spires and cliffs where you might see bighorn sheep. Side paths lead up narrow canyons to Puebloan rock art and cliff dwellings. Riverside beaches offer heavenly lunch stops and campsites.
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I have done this trip several times and it is a wonderful ride.
I stopped in Green River, WY this summer to check out the whitewater park...very cool town.
This is truely a great stretch of the Green River. I add my recommendation to that of the authors that this is a great family adventure. My family does this trip every year, although we start at the town of Green River adding 60 miles to the top end of the trip described. You get to see the most beautiful country that no one else can see except via the river. There are no roads, no visitor centers, no fast food, just you and the very remote landscape. Definitely a must do!
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