Youth River Camps - Steamboat 3 (WAITLIST)

  • Rafting
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477, USA
Jun 23 2025
Jun 26 2025

Schedules

Steamboat 3 (06/23/2025-06/26/2025) Program is full

Camp Registration Full
$400.00
  • Mon9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Tue9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Wed9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Thu9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Description

Day 1: Local river laps with activities in between

Day 2: Collaborative session with Yampatika, combination of classroom and river time

Day 3: Local river laps with activities in between 

Day 4: Yampa float from Yampa River State Park to Dorsey river access 

 

 

On each day, we will spend some time “in class” before driving to float the river. Day two of each camp will be the most classroom centric and the other days will be spent mostly on the river, weather permitting. Activities will include games, museum tours, and lessons!

 

Depending on river flows plans are subject to change. Parents will be informed of changes each morning at drop off.

Registration period

Registration for this schedule starts on 03/04/2025 and ends on 06/03/2025

Restrictions

Participants must be entering grades 7 to 9.

In-person location

Steamboat Springs, CO 80477, USA

Description

For kids entering 7th through the 9th grade.

Discover your own backyard by embarking on a 4-day comprehensive river class on our stunning, wild and free, Yampa River!

No previous river experience is required to participate in this class. The goal of this program is to empower youth to travel safely in whitewater river conditions, develop personal expedition behavior, and to fall in love one of the most important resources here in the Yampa Valley.  This class will create opportunities for the youth of Northwest Colorado to get their foot in the door with not only beginner river skills but also on local river knowledge. Through the fundamentals of conservation and environmental education youth will be empowered to be stewards to our local river and adjacent agricultural, public and private lands.

 

 

Basic raft guiding skills

River knowledge

Brief environmental & historical education

- Reading water for recreation
- What makes a river?
- Basic hydrology
- Identifying eddies
- Cause of condition changes
- Geology
- Basic paddle strokes
- Leave No trace Ethics
- Riparian ecosystems
- Knots
- Travel Techniques
- Water uses
- Equipment knowledge
- Identifying condition changes
- History of the Yampa River
- Basic swift water rescue
- Safe navigation 
- History of western water use
Group dynamics/ expedition behavior
  

 

Program is full.