Alaska Rafting Vacations

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Alaska's Copper River

All-inclusive Alaskan Rafting Vacations with Alaska's Finest Guides

We offer real Alaska rafting vacations that you’ve read about in magazines and dreamed about…. We provide you all the comfort, support and safety you need in the heart of one of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, on one of Alaska’s finest rivers, the Copper River.

Hike, raft and camp on the Copper River, near Cordova, Alaska. Glaciers calving into the river, wildlife, and incredible mountain scenery are highlights of this trip.

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“Phenomenal ride with great guides in a spot that is out of this world!!!” Graham Cleaves, NJ

Alaska Wild Lands: 6-day Alaska Rafting Vacations

Incredible wilderness, comfortable camps, savory food, great guides
Your guides will set up deluxe tent camps in awesome wilderness, prepare great food, and most of all will work to make your Alaska rafting vacations both safe and comfortable.

Spend your last night in first class comfort in one of Cordova, Alaska's finest lodges or B&B's. After a hot shower and a great dinner, sit back and enjoy ocean views from your room, or paddle a sea kayak into Orca Inlet. A great ending to a great trip!

6-Day Alaska Rafting Vacations
Cost: $1355/person
Duration: 6 Days/5 Nights
Rapids: Class II & III, mostly scenic float

"It was absolutely amazing, life changing even. It was so awesome!"
Chelsea Rothchild, Juneau, AK

Salmon Eco Adventure
A service Learning Opportunity
The Prince William Sound Science Center is teaming up with Alaska River Expeditions to bring you a great Alaska Eco Adventure program in Cordova, Alaska. During this exciting Alaskan Adventure you will have a chance to work with skilled experiential educators to learn about the complex and interconnected ecosystems of Coastal Alaska, and the about Wild Pacific salmon, one of the most valuable natural resources of this area.
Salmon are of great cultural and economic importance to Cordova and other regions of Alaska. Many species of animals and birds also depend on salmon for survival, creating an intricate food web including bears, eagles, seals and Orca whales. You'll explore the habitats of these animals, learn about the salmon life cycle and discover how scientists manage salmon to ensure sustainable harvests and protect their marine and freshwater habitat. And you'll team up with locals as you participate in several community service learning projects tied to the salmon harvest and processing industries that further protect the environment.
You'll explore the environment surrounding the Cordova area in kayaks, canoes and rafts. You'll even have a day of instructional ice-climbing on a glacier, and a great hiking trip. By the end of the week you'll see for yourself that from the forest to the sea, it's all connected and salmon depend on it all.
Nights will be spent at the Alaska River Expeditions Campground, located in a beautiful temperate rainforest on the Copper River Delta. At camp, you'll enjoy delicious meals, fun games and campfires.

The week will end in a community celebration of salmon during the Copper River Wild! Salmon Festival. Cordova will be bustling with activities, barbeques, art workshops, live music, square dancing and educational events including the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Mobile Aquatic Classroom. Here you'll have a chance to meet locals and develop a real appreciation for the importance of salmon in their everyday lives.

8-Day Salmon Eco-Adventure
Cost: $1665/person for groups of 8-12

$1525/person for groups of 13-20
AGE: Middle School and/or High School

Duration: 8 Days/7 Nights

Available Dates 2008: July 6-12

Minimum 8 persons, Maximum 20 persons

Youth Environmental Leadership Program
Copper River Watershed Education Initiative

Fun learning opportunity for students ages 14-18

This is an exciting opportunity for 10 high school students to develop the skills needed to independently investigate and create solutions to environmental issues in their own communities. Education specialists with the Prince William Sound Science Center will give students leadership training and hands-on experiential education in the unique and beautiful Copper River Watershed. During this 9 day leadership program, which includes a 5 day rafting trip down the Copper River, participants will undertake an adventurous study of the watershed and its rich natural and human history. They will investigate environmental issues of concern to watershed communities, with a special focus on the impact of human activity on the health of watershed ecosystems. After increasing their knowledge of watershed dynamics and how science is used to assess environmental impacts, the students will develop watershed education materials that will serve to increase the awareness of both visitors to and residents of the Copper River Watershed about how the cumulative effects of their everyday behaviors affect the environment. This program will give students a variety of hands-on experiences and will provide students an opportunity to develop as leaders and members of a community that can make a positive difference.

Cost: $1375/person

Duration: 8 Days/9 Nights
Rapids: Class II & III

Minimumn 8 persons, Maximum 12 persons

Available Dates 2008:

July 23th-30th
Scholarships available, please inquire

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“It was an awesome experience and Mark was an excellent guide” Gwen Campbell, Hawley, TX

Wild Women, Wild Art, and the Wild Copper River!

Come together with a creative group of adventurous women to raft and experience Alaska's beautiful and wild Copper River. Creative activities planned while we paddle along the vast, breathtaking, and otherworldly scenery of the Copper River will be sketching, painting, journaling, and nature, wild plants, and campfire talks. This is the adventure trip to inspire and fuel everyone's creative juices!

Spend your first and last nights in first class comfort in one of Cordova, Alaska's finest lodges. While on the river your guides will help you to set up camp, and prepare great meals so you can focus on your art, or just relaxing and enjoying the scenery. On the last day we will showcase the work created on the river in a public show at the Reluctant Fisherman Inn located in the scenic Cordova Boat Harbor.

All levels of artist from accomplished to beginners are welcome. We will share new ways of seeing and recording the gorgeous wilderness you will experience in sketchbooks, journals, and plein-aire location paintings. With your sketchbook, pencil and pen, paints and paper, participants will record their impressions of a wild and scenic Alaskan adventure.

Non-artist friends and relatives are also invited as there will be gorgeous vistas, places to hike, good food, good conversation, and plenty of relaxing to be done also.

Natural History of the Copper River Watershed - Short Course
Take a vacation and earn college credits too!

The Prince William Sound Science Center has teamed up with Alaska River Expeditions to bring you a wonderful river trip with some great opportunities to learn more about the Alaskan environment. This program is an adventurous eight day field program that allows participants a chance to see first hand the interplay between tectonic and erosional forces in shaping the dramatic landscape of the Copper River Watershed. And we'll see the biological ecosystems that have evolved within this watershed as a result. Great photo opportunities abound!

In Cordova, participants will receive an introduction to the natural history of the Copper River Delta with a guest geologist and will look for evidence of geologic events that took place on the delta. A trip along the Copper River Delta with a short hikes will get us started on our great adventure. We return for a great dinner and our last night of pampered comfort at one of Cordova's fine lodges.

Then we will then travel to Chitina to begin a float trip down the Copper River with expert guides from Alaska River Expeditions. For five great days and four nights you will travel in rafts down the Copper River wilderness from the Chitina River Bridge to the Million Dollar Bridge. You can sit back and enjoy the scenery or get behind the oars to participate at whatever level you wish to participate. Each day you can enjoy hikes from camp to see some of the plants and animals of the region. Campfires, midnight sun, great scenery and fun company are highlights of the trip.
All the while we are floating and traveling down river, geologist guides and Science Center educators will teach participants how to "read" the natural history of the landscape and identify the processes that created the remarkable Copper River Basin.

The cost of this trip includes all education materials, camping equipment (except a sleeping bag and sleeping pad), food and rafting equipment, two nights lodging on July 16th and 17th at one of Cordova's fine lodges, and again on the last night after we take out from the river trip. It also includes transportation from Cordova, Alaska to Chitina, Alaska as well as transportation from the Million Dollar Bridge back to Cordova, and airport transportation on the last day.
Continuing Education Credits will be available through the University of Alaska Anchorage if you wish. Credit fees are in addition to the program fee. ($89)

Cost: $1750/person plus credit fees
Duration: 8 Days/7Nights
Available Dates 2008: July 17 - July 24 --Hurry we're filling fast!

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