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Transforming Lives Through Custom Experiential Adventures
Why Choose Us
Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides is the premier Colorado Tour Guide adventures and provider of custom, private, and unique outdoor activities for all ages and levels of experience. With over 17 land manager permits and three state licenses, we conduct trips from our office in Boulder Colorado and the surrounding areas and Rocky Mountain National Park, Roosevelt National Forest, White River National Forest, five local state parks, and the Bureau of Land Management (Kremmling Area, Grand Junction and Moab, Utah area). Our highly experienced guides bring decades of experience plus a strong focus on outdoor knowledge and safety. Furthermore, we have cultivated unique partnerships with the St. Julien Hotel & Spa,the Boulderado, and others, to offer custom packages, which help guests see the best of Boulder and it’s surrounding landscape. in 2016, Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides was awarded a concessionaire for technical mountaineering, climbing, and ski mountaineering in Rocky Mountain National Park, one of six guiding services nationwide to be awarded a permit. Our Custom and Private Colorado adventures are led by local, trained professional guides and our trips go out in all weather and conditions, guaranteeing a safe and unforgettable experience every time.
Our Philosophy
We believe in providing custom, safe, and unforgettable outdoor experiences and education. Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides is committed to sustainable outdoors ethics, community education through our AIARE and Wilderness First Aid Courses, team building activities that unite a group through a common goal, and trips which are built around the clients desires, time, and location. We strive every day and on every trip not only to show you a wonderful adventure but to win your trust and friendship and look forward to you returning year after year to explore Colorado and the West with our team. Ultimately, our goal is to show our spectacular Colorado landscape in a unique, ethical, and sustainable manner with all regards to safety as our first priority.
Our Mission
Our goal is to help our guests transcend challenges and transform their lives through positive, powerful, and custom experiential adventures. As ambassadors and partners for more than 17 federal, state and local land mangers, we promote long term preservation and stewardship of these amazing wild and outdoor areas for generations to come.
Anyone who recreates outdoors in Colorado knows how important monitoring the weather can be. Since weather here can change on a dime, it’s important to understand what indicates it’s time to get off the mountain. Unstable vs Stable In order to determine what the atmosphere is capable of for the day, we must first understand […]
Anyone who has experienced winter on the northern Front Range knows that when the smell of cow manure suddenly permeates the air seemingly out of nowhere, heavy snow will start falling within the next 12 hours. As a widely accepted and honestly hilarious forecasting tool, this phenomenon is actually the result of a classic weather […]
At Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides, you won’t find guides who just specialize in one activity. We have guides who are so passionate about the outdoors that we take up all kinds of hobbies! Your mountain biking guide probably rock climbs on the weekends, or your hiking guide can tell you about the time they […]
Digital detox!! I bet you’ve heard the term, but is there any merit to it? Is it just another trendy thing to say, or is there real value there? Let’s dig into what exactly a digital detox is and how you can benefit from one. A digital detox is when someone takes a break from […]
On November 9th after an extremely close vote, Colorado passed a bill requiring Parks and Wildlife to create a plan to reintroduce grey wolves to their once native habitat of Colorado’s mountains. With the chaos of this recent election, a lot of the information surrounding this bill got lost in the noise, leaving people with […]
When most people think of the history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its surrounding areas, they automatically think of the Gold Rush and the legendary names of Enos Mills and Joel Estes. But long before the first eastern explorers arrived, Native Americans were traversing the area’s mountainous terrain and subsisting off the local […]
