Plan Your Trip
HOW TO GET HERE
FROM DENVER
Head west on I-70 for about three hours until you hit West Glenwood (Exit 114). Take the second exit at the roundabout, head east on Mel Rey Road for a few hundred feet where you’ll see Defiance Rafting Company on your left.
FROM GRAND JUNCTION
Drive east on I-70 for about 90 minutes until you hit West Glenwood (Exit 114). Take the fourth exit at the roundabout that takes you underneath the I-70 Overpass, then take the second exit at the next roundabout, head east on Mel Rey Road for a few hundred feet where you’ll see Defiance Rafting Company on your left.
FROM ASPEN
Take Hwy 82 north to Glenwood Springs and then head west on I-70 to exit 114. Then take the second exit at the next roundabout, head east on Mel Rey Road for a few hundred feet where you’ll see Defiance Rafting Company on your left.
THE COLORADO RIVER
Fitting that the country’s most epic river starts in its most epic state. At 1,450-miles long, the Colorado is the river other rivers want to be when they grow up. Responsible for Glenwood Canyon and its bigger cousin the Grand Canyon, the Colorado cuts across seven U.S. states before hitting the Colorado River Delta at the tip of the Gulf of California.
ROARING FORK RIVER
It might only be 70 miles long, but what the Roaring Fork lacks in length it makes up for in beauty (and trout).
Swift and surly, the Roaring Fork flows through the town of Aspen and Snowmass Canyon before collecting the Fryingpan River in Basalt and the Crystal River in Carbondale, eventually merging with the Colorado River at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs.
