2002 brings the teaming of three of Colorado’s premier attractions exclusively for Tour Operators. The Royal Gorge Route Railroad, Royal Gorge Bridge & Park, and Dvorak Expeditions are now offering the ultimate Royal Gorge Exploration package!

Cables
The aerial tram, located at the royal Gorge Bridge and Park glides across the granite canyon of the Royal Gorge. Built in 1068, the cables span 2200 feet at a height of 1178 feet above the raging waters of the Arkansas River.

Planks
The Royal Gorge Bridge and Park offer the world’s highest suspension bridge. Built in 1929, it crosses a massive granite gorge and the Arkansas River. It is 1,053 feet (331 meters) high, and stretches a quarter of a mile over the Royal Gorge of Colorado. The bridge’s main span is 880 feet with tower’s 150 fee ....
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Pachelbel's Canyon By Christopher Corbet Special to the Washington Post newspaper March 29, 1998, Sunday Travel section What do you get when you cross a white-water rafting trip in Utah with a string quartet? Listen to this one. Twelve passengers boarded the Redtail Aviation planes at Grand Junction, Colo., to be deposited an hour’s flight away on the top of a barren mesa in Utah. One of those passengers was a cello. When you travel with a cello, you buy the cello a seat. Hannah was the cellist. She admitted later that she didn’t actually mention to the clerk in the Denver music store that she was taking the cello on a 100-mile white-water rafting trip on Utah’s Green river, one of the most remote and inacc .... Full Text

Parade Magazine - March 1995

Live Longer, Better, Wiser That special time together should recharge body as well as spirit—and bring you closer. So… TAKE AN ACTIVE FAMILY VACATION   By Bonnie Tandy Leblang March 12, 1995, Parade Magazine GET THE WHOLE FAMILY together and go do something fun and challenging. You’ll be surprised at what happens. When I go by vacation with my sons, Bryan and Eric, whether for a week or a weekend, we look for action. We’ll hike to the top of a hill to watch the sunrise, or bike along the coast to spend time at the beach, or ski. “It’s more fun to do something, like ski, than to spend two hours waiting in l .... Full Text

The Denver Post - June 22, 1994

You Can Count on The Numbers By Charlie Meyers, Denver Post Outdoor Writer June 22, 1994, The Denver Post newspaper Arkansas stretch offers heart-pounding ride BUENA VISTA – Whitewater rafting is many things. Exhilarating, challenging, even dangerous.  Almost never is it listed under the heading of aerobic exercise. That was before anyone began running that half-dozen miles of relentless, churning froth on the Arkansas River known as The Numbers. Whether from the sheer exertion of hard, steady stroking for long minutes though extreme turbulence or the contortions one performs simply to stay attached to the boat, a paddler has a heart-pounding experience. Twist and shout. Full Text

National Geographic Traveler - May/June 1994

National Geographic Traveler National Geographic Traveler, May/June 1994, Jeff Rennick. The Audience quiets. Stage lights go up. Violinist Guido Lamell raises his bow, pauses a beat while cellist Gloria Lum, violinist Mitch Newman, and Meredith Snow on viola, wait. Guido nods. The music begins. Beethoven’s Quartet for Strings, opus 18, No. 4 in C minor. Evening concerts are nothing new for these musicians, all member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But this is different. This concert is in the wilderness. On this night their stage light is a Coleman lantern, their stage a grotto carved into a sandstone cliff. The audience sprawls on the sand; a dozen white water rafters, listening quietly behind sunburned faces. Classical music may seem utterly unrelated to cactus and canyons. But humans have long heard m .... Full Text

Backpacker - April 1994

In Concert With Nature By Jeff Rennicke, photography by Tom Bean April, 1994 Backpacker magazine The music of Beethoven and the canyon wren harmonize when you’re rafting down a river with a string quartet. A ONE AND A TWO AND A… sunrise over the Dolores River deep in the slickrock country of southwestern Colorado. The first of the day’s light brushes the canyon rim with color. On the breeze this morning, just like every summer morning for hundreds of thousands of years, there is the sound of the river flowing, accompanied by a chorus of bird-song. But this morning there is something else, another sound so unexpected this far into the wilderness that it seems, like the wind whistling through the rock .... Full Text

Gazette Telegraph - August 1993

Floatin' & Fishin' By Barry Noreen August 22, 1993, Gazette Telegraph newspaper Remote Gorge Offers Gold-Medal Fishing, Adventure Gunnison Gorge isn’t for everybody.  If you want to get someplace in a hurry on smooth pavement, and if you don’t want light hiking, river floating and fishing, you should probably leave this roadless, litterless, timeless place off your itinerary. The gorge defines 13 wild miles of the Gunnison River just below Black Canyon National Monument, near Delta, northeast of Montrose, about 200 miles west of Colorado Springs. Full Text

Denver Post - June 1993

L.A. Musicians Find Harmony Philharmonic Floats the Dolores By Charlie Meyers, Denver Post Outdoor Writer June, 20, 1993, The Sunday Denver Post newspaper Slick Rock – There is music in a river. It sings to us in a rhapsody of ripples along a canyon wall, in the timpani of a rapid or the deep bass of a waterfall. The melody changes with each passing mile, a pounding beat through a tangle of rocks, a whisper over a long glide. Never ceasing. Always faithful to its own tune. There is music upon the river, as well. It echoes through great sandstone chambers in a chorus of strings punctuated by the trilling of a flute. In defiance of the riv .... Full Text

St. Paul Pioneer Press - August 1992

Colorado...Where Fishin', Livin' is Easy By Dennis Anderson, Outdoors Editor August 9, 1992, St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper In Colorado in summer, the fishing days come and go like gifts, one better than the next. Some of the fishing is with spinning gear but much is with flies. Either way, you cast into fast water, catch a fish or two and feel the rush of stream current against your legs, and you’ve had a good day. This day began on the Arkansas River, a stream whose headwaters are in Colorado, and one whose whitewater is floated every day of every summer by thrill-seeking rafters bent less on fishing than on tumbling with the river over rocks and through gorges. .... Full Text

Aloha - June 1992

Great Summer Escapes By Chandra Quinlan and Lance Tominaga (edited) June 1992, Aloha magazine White Water Rafting Discover ”river magic” on one of Dvorak’s Expeditions’ twenty-nine rafting excursions on ten rivers in the heart of America. Do you want to float and relax or do want an adrenaline-pumping ride? Is camping your style or do you prefer accommodations in a national park lodge? Are you more comfortable in warm desert or cool mountain air? Each river has its own personality, and Dvorak’s suggests trips that are compatible with both your desires and capabilities (the rapids of each river rated from I, easy to V, the limit of sane rafting). The Classical Music .... Full Text

Senior Edition Colorado - April 1992

River Running for Seniors: Get Wet and Wild in Colorado April, 1992, Senior Edition Colorado newspaper More and more seniors are all wet, as the number of seniors participating in river expeditions rapidly increases. Imagine rafting down a river as it carves its way through geological history in an untouched wilderness of tall sandstone cliffs, crags and towering peaks dotted with pine forest. You’ll go home with memories you will never forget. The length of river trips ranges from half-day to 17 days, to fit just about any schedule. Expedition costs range from about $30 to $1800. Available activities vary widely. Fishing trips along the calm, pristine banks fo the Dolores, with miles of the river teeming with trout, offer a completely different experience than outrageous whitewater trips on the Colorado River. Many tour companies offer combination trips which may include .... Full Text

Denver Post - March 1992

Guess Who's Coming to Colorado City slickers head for hills By Michael Booth, Denver Post Staff Writer March 2, 1992, Denver Post newspaper 9 million expected to vacation here this summer   All night Lou Drakulich walks one of Chicago’s zaniest police beats, the rowdy shift on Rush Street where the Midwest has its largest concentration of singles bars and hormonally charged Yuppies. As he nurses his sore feet at 6 each morning and drifts off to sleep, he ponders the word “opposite.” What is the opposite of bar closing on Rush Street? Answer: A rafting trip with his vice squad buddies on the wild wate .... Full Text

Weekly Reader - July 1989

Cool Vacations for a Hot Summer July 7, 1989, Weekly Reader, Summer Edition C The hot sun beats down on 8-year-old Anicka Dvorak, her 4-year-old brother, and her parents. The family floats peacefully down the Rio Grande River in their raft. Soon Anicka hears a faint noise. The noise grows louder as the raft drifts along. The river water gets rougher until—suddenly—the raft is caught in a strong current! The raft bounces up and down on the fast-moving river. Water splashes over Anicka, soaking her hair and clothes. Her heart races!  Anicka holds on tightly as the raft twists and .... Full Text

Denver Post - May 1987

Kayak Patrol Catching violators in act a concept that holds water By Bob Saile, Denver Post Outdoor Editor Thursday, May 28, 1987, The Denver Post newspaper More and more kayaks are appearing on Colorado rivers. That’s not exactly news in a state where various forms of river running grow annually in popularity. What’s new is that a steadily increasing number of these light, compact little boats are being occupied by officers of the Colorado Division of Wildlife.   Call it the Kayak Patrol. Some of the fishing regulation-violators use stronger descriptions than that, after the initial shock wears off – the shock, that is, of having what appears to be just an .... Full Text