Why Us
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Environment & Community
Facilities
Not all companies are the same. Here are the reasons to choose Mountain Whitewater:
- All seats come with foot cones to help keep you in the raft.
- All seats have an extra thwart handle to help keep you in the raft.
- Free splash jackets, fleece jackets and neoprene gloves to keep you warm.
- All self-bailing rafts (no 5-gallon buckets).
- Full kayak style helmets on all trips.
- Trip photo and video packages available
- Paddler’s Pub, volleyball, yard games and more.
- Safety kayak or cataraft on all high-water trips. No other Poudre company offers this.
- The most experienced guides on the Poudre with an average experience of over 6 years.
- No Double runs to make trips longer (other companies run a 2.5-mile stretch twice – ours is 8 miles continuous).
- Our 12-acre park, including volleyball and yard games, are FREE to use for all of our guests.
- We received an outstanding rating from the U.S.F.S. 16 years in a row! The previous years they didn’t conduct the reviews
- We are the only Poudre company to run continuous half day trips through class IV, all the other companies take off the river and get on the bus in the middle of your whitewater adventure! Wouldn’t you rather spend time on the river for a longer amount of time?.
- We offer special packages that give guests the opportunity to experience more of what Fort Collins has to offer.
- 2nd place American Whitewater photo contest – 2007
- Colorado Enterprise Fund “Success Story” – 2000 & 2008
- Environmental Leader – FC Chamber of Commerce -2008
- Finalist BBB Torch Awards for Business Ethics – 2009
- Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Business of the Month – August, 2013
- Winner of the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Environmental Business Award in 2011
- Arlene Nededog Merchant Award 2007
- Best in Business-Best Place to Work 2007
- Best in Business-Rising Business Star 2007
- Best in Business-Family/Small Business of the Year 2007
- 2010 Business Innovator to the Year – Director of Fun, Ben Costello
- Mountain Whitewater Honored Member #3158 in good standing of the Paddlesports Industry Association
- President, Brad Modesitt 40 under Forty Class of 2008
- Director of Fun, Ben Costello 40 under Forty Class of 2014
- Fort Collins area Chamber of Commerce 100 Best Businesses 2004
- Mountain Whitewater member of Fort Collins area Chamber of Commerce since 2001
- “American Dream Town.” Fort Collins rated as one of the Best Towns in the U.S.: Outside Magazine – August 2005
- Gold level Bicycle Friendly Community: League of American Bicyclists – September 2008
- Gold Level member of City of Fort Collins Climatewise Program from 2010 to 2014
- Platinum Level member of City of Fort Collins Climatewise Program from 2015 to 2017
- Organizer of the annual Cache La Poudre River Clean Up
- The Cache La Poudre River is Colorado’s only “Wild and Scenic River”
- Creators of “Professionally Guiding Whitewater” a book on guiding whitewater in a professional manner
- “People Love Us on Yelp” award winner for 2017
- Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence – 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,2023,2024,2025 Winner
- Best of NOCO, 2021, 2022