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Desolation Canyon - Woman Pointing at Scenery on Boat - Mild to Wild

A Desolation Canyon Photo Story

Desolation Canyon falls into the far reaches of Utah’s most remote wilderness study area. The rare refuge gives much-needed space for migrating bison, free roaming mustangs, Big horned sheep, black bears, and many other desert fauna to go about their business uninterrupted. In that, the name of this growing canyon

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Yampa River - Scenic boats docked at Mathers Hole - Mild to Wild

10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Yampa River

If if there’s one thing that people know about the Yampa River, it’s usually that it holds the mighty title as the last free-flowing tributary in the Colorado River system. For a little context on this wild waterway— The Yampa River starts in the mountains above Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and

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Gates of Lodore Scenic Boats

Rafting Season Forecast for 2023

Whoop whoop— It’s the Rafting Season Forecast for 2023!!! Hold onto those boat straps folks, it’s going to be a WILD season! With a long and snow-packed winter behind us, we’re gearing up for a righteously rampant runoff across the Colorado Plateau. Get ready for some of the highest flows

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Bluff Scenery in Cataract Canyon - Wide View

3 Awesome Alternative Rafting Trips to the Grand Canyon 

It’s no secret that the Grand Canyon is an A-lister of multi-day rafting excursions, but it’s not the only one on the proverbial list of river celebrities— there’s plenty of alternative trips to the Grand Canyon. The great waterways of the Southwest have cut a rugged network of canyons that

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multi-day campsite in Castle Valley, Utah - Mild to Wild

How to Choose the Right Multi-Day Rafting Trip

Shopping around for a multi-day rafting trip but not quite sure where to start? We know that feeling all too well! Mild to Wild offers overnight river trips for 7 different rivers spread across Colorado, Utah and Arizona. What can we say, we love running rivers and we love having

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Gates of Lodore Hike - Lodore - Mild to Wild Rafting

Living in Lodore Canyon — A Guide’s Ride with the Green River

Before the canyons of the Green River were mapped 150 years ago, many westerners imagined that they unraveled into gardens of Eden. Today, most, if not all, might say that assumption was completely astute. Particularly in Lodore Canyon. Between billion-year-old quartzite walls, gardens bloom bankside with wild mint and hackberries,

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Salt River - Medium shot of a group rafting through white water

The Mild to Wild Black Friday Shopping Guide 

The Mild to Wild Black Friday Shopping Guide  It’s just about that wonderful time of year again for us to put in, push off, and row like maniacs through 4 righteous days of Black Friday rafting deals!! This year, we’re rinsing 20% off the majority of our trips from Black Friday

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Splashy White Water in Desolation Gray Canyon – Mild to Wild Rafting & Jeep Tours

Cataract or Desolation Canyon? Which is the best to raft?

It’s a decision we don’t take lightly around here, trying to decide between whether to raft Cataract or Desolation Canyon. Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement actually, getting worked up over playing in the wilderness would be pretty counterintuitive to the whole… playing the wilderness thing, after all.  Nevertheless! This is a

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Moab Rafting Utah-Cataract Canyon-Mild to Wild Rafting

Why Are Cataract Canyon’s Rapids So Big?

“On starting, we come at once too difficult rapids and falls, that, in many places, is more abrupt than in any of the canons through which we have passed, and we decide to name this Cataract Canon.” — John Welsey Powell, July 23rd 1869, During the first organized expedition of

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Whitewater Gates of Lodore Rafting – Dinosaur National Monument – Mild to Wild Rafting

Rafting Season Forecast for 2022

Calling all river fanatics! Grab the pumps and paddles and dust off those PFDs, because the Rafting Season Forecast for 2022 is here! This winter certainly kept us on our toes, and with the final weeks of significant snowfall behind us, we’ve got the full scoop on what to expect

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