Steamboat Pilot & Today

Colorado stream access debate drifts beyond 2026 after lawmakers fail to find compromise between landowners, recreationists

Last summer, a group of Colorado legislators hopped aboard several rafts with river guides and conservationists to float a ...
Vail Daily

For lawmakers, an afternoon float on the Colorado River reignites an age-old question: Who gets access to the state’s streams?

Sporting sandals, swim shorts and baseball caps — and hopefully plenty of sunscreen — a cohort of state lawmakers hopped aboard several rafts on a hot June day to talk policy as they floated the ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Defiance Rafting Company to host inaugural downvalley float to benefit Middle Colorado Watershed Council

From agriculture and energy to recreation and the economy, the Colorado River touches nearly every aspect of life on the Western Slope. Since 2009, the Middle Colorado Watershed Council (MCWC) has ...
KJCT8

The ‘right to float’ situation in Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - It’s been a long-debated issue in Colorado whether you have the right to float down the river across private property. Greg Walcher, Fellow at the Common Sense Institute ...
The Denver Post

Amid ‘a transparency desert,’ states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What’s next?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...