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Show 5. J Variety of Tour Available from Mitch Williams' Tag-A-Long Float the Colorado River in a rubber raft for one day or four with Tag-A-Long Tours, headquartered head-quartered in Moab. Daily trips leave each morning from the Tag-A-Long office on North Main. Passengers for the day-long trip travel 22 miles up the Colorado River before putting their boat into the water. The trip begins near Fisher Towers and a series of seven rapids provides an exciting trip. Plenty of smooth water allows enough time during the day for a refreshing water fight and the trip is recommended for the entire family. Cost for the outing is $15 per person with kids under 12 riding for $10. Special rates are available for groups of 20 or more. For those who have tried the short one-day trip or who are anxious for more excitement, there are trips on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon--with the Granddaddies of all rapids --and through Westwater Canyon which has been open to commercial navigation for only a few years. . Traveling through Cataract Canyon is one of the most memorable experiences of a lifetime. Towering Canyon walls and spectacular rapids make the journey an awesome experience. Two days of calm water allow the visitor to enjoy some of the world's greatest scenery. Below the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers, you enter Cataract Canyon and for the next two days shoot the rapids through many miles of white water. At the end of this run you enter Lake Powell and proceed to Hite where the river trip ends. For those who wish to continue their trip, 4-wheel drive vehicles are available to take you into the heart of Canyonlands for another three days of adventure. Visitors who wish to conclude their journey may do so here and will be returned to Moab. The Westwater trip encompasses three days and is offered June through September. There is also a five day trip down the San Juan River from Bluff to Clay Hills Crossing and a Green River Wilderness tour of five days duration which takes the visitor from Ouray, Utah to the town of Green River, Utah. There are about 60 moderate rapids on this excursion. For those visitors who wish to see Cataract Canyon from the Green River side, there are tours of six days which leave from the town of Green River and end at Hite Marina on Lake Powell. In addition to these river tours, Tag-A-Long offers a full complement of land tours as well as jet boat cruises. For detailed information on any of the trips offered, contact Tag-A-Long Tours, P.O. Box 1206, Moab. Phone 259-6690. |