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101 Main St / P.O. Box 118
Bluff, Utah 84512-0118
Fax (435) 672-2365
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  "But the San Juan country proper, between the Abajo Mountains and Monument Valley, and between the Colorado boundary and Glen Canyon of the Colorado, is the heart of the last great wilderness. Through the middle of it, flowing in a continuous canyon to its junction with the Colorado 133 miles westward, runs the San Juan River, as little known and as little celebrated as the country it drains."  

 -  Wallace Stegner, 1948

Welcome, and thank you for visiting our website.

The San Juan River, as it incises through the heart of the Colorado Plateau, evokes wonder, beauty and solitude like few places on earth. Its aesthetic has inspired the West's finest authors and artists.  Its natural, geologic and human histories have endlessly indulged people from all walks of life. And the river's serenity has made return visitors of the most traveled wilderness enthusiasts.

Located near Monument Valley in Bluff, Utah, Wild Rivers Expeditions has specialized in sharing this wonderful place with others for fifty years. Among commercial outfitters, we run the most and the highest quality San Juan River expeditions.  We're one of the West's oldest river outfitters, and our focus on quality, learning, kindness and fun is known by clients the world over.  

Our outstanding staff of caring, professional guides specialize in interpreting the river's exquisite Ancestral Puebloan culture and textbook geology; your safety and the quality of your experience are their foremost concerns. We continually hear from those who travel with us that their time on the river was the experience of a lifetime.

Please join us. Be it a one-day excursion or a ten-day expedition, sharing this spectacular place with you would be our privilege and pleasure.


Yours sincerely, in the canyons,

The Guides, Staff and Owners of Wild Rivers Expeditions

Featured Trips

1 Day Upper Canyon
One day; 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Upper canyon; 26 miles from Bluff to Mexican Hat


4 Day Upper Canyon
Four days, three nights
Bluff to Mexican Hat, 26 miles


5 Day Lower Canyon
Five days, four nights
Mexican Hat to Clay Hills, 58 miles


7 Day Full Canyon

Upper Canyon, 84 miles from Bluff to Clay Hills


The 2008 Great San Juan Slickhorn Adventure
11 days; 5 by boat, 6 by backpack
San Juan River, Slickhorn Canyon


Singing Waters - A Women's Spiritual Raft Trip
3 Days, 2 Nights September 19th-21st, 2008
Bluff to Mexican Hat





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