New Mexico’s original rafting company
Guiding the rivers near Taos and Santa Fe for over 50 years
Because it’s fun!
Los Rios has been running the Rio Grande and Rio Chama for over 50 years
No company in New Mexico knows these rivers like we do.
And no company in norther New Mexico can match our safety record. Our guides are highly trained, far beyond federal requirements—and not only in whitewater safety. They know the rich local history and culture of northern New Mexico. They’re fun-loving individuals, keen to share with you their love of the river and this beautiful land we call home.
We hope that you, like so many of our guests, will become a friend, and return to raft with us every season.
Our Most Popular Trips
Half Day
Rio Grande Racecourse
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Our most popular half-day raft trip. You will be with us for a total of aproximatley 3 hours. Aproximatley 2 hours of that is on Class 2 and 3 rapids, The higher the water the faster the adventure. High water is like a rollercoaster ride of whitewater thrills. Lower water is more like a wet bumper car ride. A perfect family adventure at most water levels, the Racecourse is a suitable whitewater raft trip for first-time rafters. At super-high levels, the last rapid of the Racecourse is one of the biggest on the Rio Grande!
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Class 3 (4 in high water)
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6 (10 to 12 in high water, 14 to 16 in super-high water)
Full Day
Rio Grande Taos Box
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The best whitewater rafting in New Mexico! Our full-day trip rafting the world-famous Taos Box is the ultimate whitewater adventure, with 16 miles of intense, challenging rapids crashing through the most awe-inspiring part of the Rio Grande Gorge.
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Class 4 plus
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12 (14 in high water, 16 in super-high water)
Multi-Day
Chama Wilderness Overnight
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Book an overnight rafting trip on the Rio Chama, one of America's most beautiful Wild and Scenic Rivers, and New Mexico’s most spectacular wilderness boating. The current carries us past cliffs towering up to 1500 feet, striped in vivid shades of pink, vermilion, and white. We make camp under immense old-growth ponderosa pines, in glorious meadows carpeted with wildflowers, or at the foot of a side canyon ideal for a short hike. The dawn mist shrouds the pink sandstone in a silver glow. You wake as if to the beginning of a new world.
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Class 3- or 2+
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6. Younger children can leave the trip at lunchtime on the last day, before the larger rapids.
Trusted and preferred by our customers.
Specialty Trips
Native Cultures
Feast and Float
The Rifters
on the Rio Chama
Yoga and Wellness Retreat
on the Rio Chama
