After you've admired the Grand Canyon from the hiking trails (or even from the air on a helicopter tour), enjoy a new vantage point on a Colorado River rafting tour. Options range from the family ...

For a more rustic stay, Ridgway State Park is open year round with winter camping options in 48 RV sites and three yurts complete with electric power, propane heaters, and gas log stoves. (Winter ...

and a suspension bridge over the Colorado River to Bright Angel Campground (9.5 miles) and nearby Phantom Ranch. The only path into the canyon from the North Rim is the North Kaibab Trail ...

Following a perilous three-month journey, John Wesley Powell’s exhausted crew reached the confluence of the Colorado and ...

The 14-mile (one way) trail leads all the way to the Colorado River. The trail can be grueling since its elevation is 1,000 feet higher than the hikes along the South Rim. In the summer ...

The Colorado River Basin spans parts of Mexico, lands of nearly 30 tribal nations, and seven U.S. states, including Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and California. (Water ...

Up to 10 two-mile-long trains per day would head east right along the Colorado River and then through Denver. All this waxy crude oil on railroad tanker cars would travel through Grand Junction ...

Editor’s note • This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water ...

Farmers relying on the Colorado River are raising the alarm as diminishing river flows threaten food supplies and could lead to increased U.S. grocery prices in 2025. With the current agreement ...

The cornerstone of Colorado ... River basin.” This story was produced by Aspen Journalism, in partnership with The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Center for Environmental Journalism. Aspen ...

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump said he would claw back unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act. That could jeopardize the expensive programs that have brought a wave of ...

An analysis by Aspen Journalism found that across Colorado’s Western Slope, cities, conservancy districts, fossil fuel companies and private entities hold conditional water rights that would store ...