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Yampa and Green Through Dinosaur National Monument , United State (western)
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River Office, Dinosaur National Monument,
4545 Highway 40, Dinosaur, Colorado 81610;
+1 970 374 2468,
fax +1 970 374 3003.
Outfitters Association (CROA),
4098 Surrey Court, Lafayette, Colorado 80026;
+1 303 369 4632.
Colorado Travel and Tourism Authority,
P.O. Box 22005, Denver, Colorado 80222;
+1 303 296 3384
800 265 6723.
Location: Northwestern Colorado (about 210 miles northwest of Denver;
about 170 miles east of Salt Lake City).
Length of trips: 71 miles (46 on the Yampa, 25 on the Green) in four
to six days.
Season: May and June. The water flow varies, depending on the snowpack,
but usually peaks in mid-May.
Weather: In May and early June daytime temperatures average 55° to
70°F, dropping into the 50s at night. In late June daytime temperatures rise
into the 80s, with nighttime temperatures in the 60s. Rain showers can cool
things off.
Lodging:
Riverside campsites on sandy beaches and in trees at the
mouths of smaller canyons. Also motels in Vernal, Utah.
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Boats: Kayaks, oar boats,
paddle rafts.
Rapids: Numerous Class II,
III, and IV rapids,
depending on the season.
Warm Springs rapid can reach
Class V during high water.
The cold, silty water warms
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attractions
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Special features:
- One of the most popular river trips in the
West.
- Striking panoramas of rounded buttes,
slickrock canyons, and bizarre rock formations known as hoodoos.
- Some of the most challenging white water
in the West, including Warm Springs rapid, formed in 1965 by a
flash flood.
- Fine hikes to canyon overlooks and side
canyons ribboned with waterfalls and decorated with petroglyphs of
the vanished Fremont people.
- Bighorn sheep, mule deer, river otters,
beavers, golden eagles, peregrine falcons.
- Wilderness solitude.
- Great for river runners of all
levels.
Nearby excursions:
- Fossil dinosaur remains and exhibit at
Dinosaur Quarry, near Jensen, Utah.
- Lodore Canyon.
- Flaming Gorge.
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