Canyonlands National Park

Canyonlands National Park Introduction

Canyonland National Park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River and their tributaries. The rivers divide the park into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze and the rivers themselves. While these areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, each retains its own character and offers different opportunities for exploration. There are no roads that directly link each district, so getting to each district will take some driving time on paved highways.

Heart of Canyonlands National Park by Canoe

Paddle to the heart of Canyonlands. There the Green and Colorado Rivers join. You can rendezvous with Tag-A-Long Expeditions to roof rack your touring kayak or canoe, stow your camping gear, then jet boat up the Colorado River back to Moab, Utah.

Immerse into the Backcountry of Canyonlands -- Maze District

Camping near the Chocolate Drops Canyonlands National Park Utah

The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park envelopes a labyrinth of canyons, challenging 4WD trails and hard-to-reach, but well-worth-reaching rock art panels. If this rugged adventure poses too enumerable barriers to you, consider a professional outfitter, like Tag-A-Long Expeditions of Moab, Utah, to lead and care for you in this outstanding landscape.

Grand Canyon alternative in Utah

Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park serves up 28 Grand Canyon Style rapids. It is one hundred miles of the Colorado River from Moab, Utah to Lake Powell. Tag-A-Long Expeditions offers 1 - 4 day rafting trips. And this May and June visitors will want an outfitter to lead them, as record snow melt is recorded in the Rocky Mountains.

High water on an unbridled Colorado River will be terrific and this level of rafting comes around only every ten years or so. Enjoy the solitude only Utah can provide.