Camps

Spanish Bottoms

beach campright bankMile 213

Spanish Bottoms is the most important camp in Cataract Canyon — a wide, flat sandy terrace on river right, just above the first of the Big Drops at mile 213. Groups camped here are positioned to scout the rapids the foll…

Black-and-white close-up of sun-dried mud cracked into curling polygonal plates.

Lower Rapid 15 Camp

Mile 204.7

Lower Rapid 15 Camp sits at the foot of Rapid 15 (Capsize) in the middle of Mile Long. From camp the view runs upstream into Rapid 15 and downstream to the Button, the boulder that gives Button Hole its name, with the Bi…

An elevated view down onto a muddy river running through a boulder-strewn rapid, with two rafts tied at a small sandy camp, gear spread on the beach, and a sunlit rock face in the foreground.

Kolb Camp

right bankMile 202.3

Kolb Camp is a river-right camp in the Big Drops, between Big Drop 2 and Big Drop 3. It sits in the middle of the canyon's biggest whitewater, which makes it as much a scouting stop as a camp: Big Drop 3 is just downstre…

Black-and-white fisheye view of a dory tied off at a small sand beach on the muddy Colorado River in Cataract Canyon, a bow line and footprints crossing the sand and whitewater visible upstream beneath high canyon walls.

Dark Canyon Bench Camp

bench campright bankMile 182.8

Dark Canyon Bench Camp occupies a terrace on the right bank at mile 182.8, near the confluence of Dark Canyon with the Colorado River. Dark Canyon is one of the most significant side canyons in this stretch — draining th…

Trin-Alcove Camp

river campright bank

Trin-Alcove Camp sits on a sandy bench on the inside of Trin-Alcove Bend, one of the most dramatic entrenched meanders in Labyrinth Canyon. The Green River wraps nearly 270 degrees around a narrow sandstone peninsula her…

Cottonwoods on a low dirt bank above the muddy Green River at Trin-Alcove camp, with rounded sandstone knobs and walls rising behind under a clear midday sky.

Sheep Bottom Camp

Mile 18.5

Sheep Bottom Camp is a low-water beach camp at Sheep Bottom (Whitestripe) in Meander Canyon, eighteen and a half miles above the Confluence. It sits within reach of a first-evening run from the Potash ramp: a group launc…

A thin bright white band runs horizontally through a dark red layered sandstone wall above a talus slope, with green riparian shrubs and a footprinted sand beach in the foreground.

Little Hole Camp

river campleft bank

River-left boater camp in Westwater Canyon at Colorado River mile 120.7 (RiverMaps), near the Little Hole Canyon and Little Dolores area above the gorge rapids.

Calm muddy water of the Colorado River fronting a sandy landing with a small marker post, green willows, and a lone leafy tree at Little Hole Camp in Westwater Canyon, beneath striped red sandstone walls and wispy clouds.

By River Section

Cataract Canyon

Cataract Canyon

Spanish Bottoms

Lower Rapid 15 Camp

Kolb Camp

Dark Canyon Bench Camp

Labyrinth Canyon

Labyrinth Canyon

Trin-Alcove Camp

Meander Canyon

Meander Canyon

Sheep Bottom Camp

Westwater Canyon

Westwater Canyon

Little Hole Camp

All Camps A–Z