The National Park Service opened a lottery for extended self-guided rafting trips along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park this week, offering hundreds of spots for 2026.

PHOENIX — Grand Canyon National Park is now accepting lottery applications for noncommercial river trip permits for 2026. Applications to raft the Colorado River opened Saturday and will be available ...

Rafting on the white water rapids of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park ...

After you've admired the Grand Canyon from the hiking ... a new vantage point on a Colorado River rafting tour. Options range from the family-friendly half-day float through Horseshoe Bend on ...

Discover otherworldly dunes, desert canyons, lofty amusement parks, and a surprising number of waterfalls and hot springs in ...

On Feb. 1, the National Park Service began accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado ...