ADVENTURE GUIDES IN UTAH

Adventure Guides

This is a list of tour operators who provide more than one type of activity in Utah.

All Ways Adventure 

All Ways Adventure is a professional Guide service based in the Zion National Park area. They offer day trips Canyoneering, Rock Climbing, Hiking, and Luxury Off-roading. They also offer “You Dream it-We Build it” custom and private multi-day itineraries.

Kanab, UT

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Backcountry Pros

The Backcountry Pros offer backcountry ski touring, yurt trips, and backcountry courses, private charter heli skiing, rock and ice climbing, canyoneering, and world skiing in Alaska, Antarctica, and New Zealand.

Salt Lake City, UT

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Bar 10 Ranch

Bar 10 Ranch has been hosting Grand Canyon visitors for several decades. They are the perfect beginning and ending point for many river rafting experiences on the Colorado River and they are an excellent spot for country hospitality and adventure on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. They offer ATV rides, horseback riding, hiking, river rafting, skeet shooting, and helicopter tours.

St. George, UT 

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ClubRec

In addition to providing snowmobiling, UTV, and boat rentals, Club Rec also provides guided snowmobile or ATV tours in some of the most beautiful areas in Utah.

Eden, UT

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Daniels Summit Guides & Rentals

Daniels Summit provides some of the best snowmobiling in the state (both rentals and tours)! If you plan to visit Utah during the summer, you can explore the beauties of nature while horseback riding or switch it up and rent one of their Jeep Wranglers for a different kind of ride. 

Heber City, UT

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Desert Highlights

Desert Highlights is a canyoneering, packrafting and rock climbing guide service that combines canyoneering gear, packrafts, and/or mountain bikes to reach remote terrain. They offer private tours and tailor your trip to meet the needs, abilities, and goals of your group. During your guided tour with Desert Highlights, not only will you be safely guided through jaw-dropping terrain, but you will learn about the flora, fauna, geology and history of our amazing backyard.

Moab, UT

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Destination Sports and Adventures

Destination Sports and Adventures offer summer adventures from whitewater river rafting, kayaking and tubing to mountain biking, horseback riding and fly fishing. Destination Sports caters to all types of large and small groups, including families with children as young as 3 years old, couples, groups of friends, sports teams, corporate groups, church groups, youth camps, and the over-50 crowd. Their winter activities include guided snowmobiling, winter fly fishing, horse drawn sleigh rides, and dog sledding.

Park City, UT

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East Zion Adventures

East Zion Adventures focuses on four main adventure activities on and off the Zion Ponderosa Ranch property. Those activities are Canyoneering, Jeep Tours, Horseback Riding, and Guided Hiking. Zion Ponderosa Ranch itself offers activities on its property such as Skeet Shooting, Paintballing, Ziplining, Rockwall Climbing, and a few others also carried out by East Zion Adventures.

East Zion, Utah

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Hondoo Rivers and Trails

With Hondoo Rivers and Trails, experience a wide range of activities offered by the longest operating outfitting service by Capitol Reef National Park in south Central Utah. Take a guided horseback vacation through red rock canyons, alpine meadows buttes, and plateaus. These vacations are always accompanied by spectacular views. Or, take a jeep trip vacation through the many trails in south-central Utah and hike miles of intricate paths. For the night dwellers, experience Utah’s designated gold tier International Dark Skies Park.

Torrey, UT

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Inspired Summit Adventures

Inspired Summit Adventures offer a unique, highly personal, and customized way to explore the mountains of Utah. Whether hiking, mountain biking, climbing, or backcountry skiing, Inspired Summit Adventures combines outdoor adventures with a mindful approach to the outdoors that will leave you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated! They also offer single and multi-day adventure and wellness retreats.

Park City, UT

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NAVTEC Expeditions of Moab

NAVTEC Expeditions of Moab, Utah offers half-day, one-day, or multi-day whitewater rafting trips down the canyons of the Colorado River. They also offer 4×4 tours throughout Southeast Utah, canyoneering, and hikes.

Moab, UT

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Paragon Adventures

Paragon Adventures is the most established adventure guide service in the Greater Zion area, offering only private and tailored tours since 1994. Rock climbing, rappelling, zip lines, canyoneering, mountain biking, caving, and Adventure hiking tours are often in locations where guests do not see another person all day long.

St. George, UT

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Raven’s Rim Adventure Tours

Raven’s Rim offers exclusive adventure tours in beautiful Moab, Utah. With over 350 private acres along the Sand Flats Recreation Area, Raven’s Rim offers one-of-a-kind high desert experiences that include Moab’s only zip line tours and via ferrata climbing course, as well as exclusive Hummer tours, and 4×4 off road trails.

Moab, UT

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Red River Adventures

Red River Adventures offer  rafting, rock climbing and canyoneering trips during the summer and guided backcountry skiing, ice climbing in the winter. In addition, they have photography services, and horseback riding and 4×4 UTV tours.

Moab, UT

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Red Canyon Lodge Adventures

Red Canyon Lodge offers boats and bikes for rent. Enjoy everything from horseback riding, private lake fishing, hiking, mountain biking, hunting, and a free kids’ fishing pond.
Flaming Gorge, UT

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Rocky Mountain Outfitters

Rocky Mountain Outfitters provides a blue ribbon fishing experience on both the Provo and Weber rivers, horseback riding, rafting, ATVing, sleigh rides, and snowmobile tours.

Midway, UT

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Ruby’s Guided Tours

Ruby’s Inn is known for the wide selection of activities available to their guests. Rides are available for all ages and skill levels from beginner to expert. Ruby’s also offers one-half hour and one hour guided ATV tours. These shorter trips are a year round favorite. For a slower paced off road adventure, mountain bike rentals are available for visitors to use as they explore the Bryce Canyon region. Trails abound for riders of all skill levels. 

Bryce Canyon City, UT

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Southern Utah Guiding

Southern Utah Guiding offers trips for all abilities in a variety of outdoor pursuits. Try Canyoneering, Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, scenic Ebike tours, Rappelling, and Hiking. Their experienced and knowledgeable guides not only keep you safe and teach you new skills, you’ll learn about the Geology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Botany, and Scenery-ology that their guides’ combined 40+ years of adventuring and studying the local desert have given them.

Hurricane, UT

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Superior Mountain Adventures

Superior Mountain Adventures is a custom adventure consulting company. They specialize in customized instruction and guided trips for skiing, rock climbing, and mountain biking enthusiasts in the Wasatch Mountains and beyond. They design their custom programs to fit individual goals and meet your own specific expectations.

Salt Lake and Park City, UT

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Transcendent Tours

Transcendent Tours offers guided backcountry experiences and education in ski, split boarding, rock, ice, and alpine climbing.

Salt Lake City, UT

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Utah Mountain Adventures

Utah Mountain Adventures is the premier full-spectrum, year-round guide service in Utah. Programs include backcountry skiing, split-snowboarding, rock climbing, ice climbing, avalanche instruction, summer and winter mountaineering, trekking (hiking and snowshoeing) and canyoneering skills. Their roster of guides and instructors (including many who are AMGA certified) maximizes the knowledge and experience gained by guests. 

Salt Lake City, UT

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Wasatch Mountain Guides

Wasatch Mountain Guides is owned and operated by IFMGA guides Todd Passey and Willie Benegas. They provide a full range of instructional winter and summer courses and guided winter mountaineering, backcountry skiing in the Wasatch, and ice climbing, plus summer mountaineering, rock climbing, backcountry education, and hiking programs.

Salt Lake City, UT

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White Pine Touring

White Pine Touring is an outdoor retailer specializing in mountain biking, backcountry skiing, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and rock climbing. They rent top-of-the line equipment and offer guided mountain biking, road biking, hiking, and rock climbing as well as lessons throughout Park City’s 450 miles of trails and the neighboring Uinta Mountains. White Pine Touring also grooms over 20 kilometers of Nordic trails for classic and skate skiing in the winter.

Park City, UT

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Zion Adventures

Join Zion Adventures for guided hikes through the Narrows and Zion National Park, canyoneering, rock climbing, biking, and photography tours. Since 1996, Zion Adventure Company has been providing innovative equipment, customized adventures, and educational information from their premier location right outside Zion National Park.

Springdale, UT

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Zion Guide Hub

Zion Guide Hub specializes in providing a trip uniquely tailored to your interests and abilities. With over 14 years of experience in and around Zion, they share their knowledge and excitement for the area through multiple guided offerings. They offer guided hiking, both inside and outside of Zion National Park, canyoneering, biking via e-bikes, regular pedal bikes, or Mountain bikes, and multi-sport days where you pick your combinations of activities. They also offer rock climbing, fishing, and paddling tours. Lastly, Zion Guide Hub offers the unique opportunity to have a professional adventure photographer (Wild Within Us) along for your tour to have tangible memories for those intangible moments.

Springdale, UT

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Zion Mountaineering School

Zion Mountaineering School is Zion’s only comprehensive guide service and instructional school for: Canyoneering, Rock Climbing, Ice Climbing, Backcountry Skiing, and Mountain Biking.

ALL trips and courses are private. Anyone from beginner to big wall is welcome.

Springdale, UT 

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Zion Mountain Ranch

Zion Mountain Ranch offers guided horseback tours for guests of any riding ability. Or experience incredible rock formations and sweeping views from some of the lesser known areas around Zion National Park with a Jeep Tour. They also offer guided canyoneering and hikes for explorers of all experience levels.

Mount Carmel, UT

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Backpacking and Hiking in Utah

Big Wild Adventures

Big Wild Adventures offers both wilderness backpacking and wilderness canoeing. Each trip is a unique entity, personally planned by Big Wild owners Dave and Jesse, and scheduled for optimal time slots. Big Wild Adventures emphasizes the “wild” in the wilderness, and quality rather than quantity. Depending upon regulations and other factors, their scheduled trips are limited to 4 to 8 clients plus their guide and sometimes an assistant.

Utah, Yellowstone, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Alaska

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Canyons and Chefs

Canyons and Chefs provides upscale and unique outdoor experiences, creating the meeting space between adventure, wilderness culture, and fine food and drink. They design and execute extraordinary and customized experiences that center on incredible quality instead of volume. Their experiences include Luxury Basecamps or Backpacking, their Geologic Immersion Backpacking Expeditions, and their incredible Chef’s Table events set in some of the most spectacular landscapes of the west.

Grand Canyon, Sedona, Utah, Colorado, Death Valley

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Wildland Trekking

Wildland Trekking is a premier tour company specializing in guided hiking and backpacking adventures across the USA and the world. Their Utah program includes Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Capitol Reef National Park, Arches and Canyonlands, and Paria Slot Canyons.

Rocky Mountain National Park, CO

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Biking in Utah

Dreamride Cycling

Dreamride Cycling provides personalized, private, environmentally focused, guided, and supported road and mountain bike rides set up according to client skills, fitness, and interests. They guide mellow to hardcore slickrock and technical singletracks through amazing landscapes. Dreamride also offers guided hiking trips. All Dreamride’s guided hikes feature the best in local and natural history interpretation, personal assistance with photography, and comfortable transportation to and from the trail. Snacks and water are provided for all hikes, when needed or requested.

Moab, UT

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Moab Cyclery

Moab Cyclery offers single- and multi-day bike tours through their partner, Escape Adventures. You can sign up for half-day tours on Bar M (a.k.a. Brand Trails), Horse-thief, Navajo Rocks, Monitor and Merrimack, Klondike Bluffs, or Klonzo trails. Full-day tours are available on Mag 7, Bar M (a.k.a. Brand Trails), Horse-thief, Navajo Rocks, Monitor and Merrimack, Klondike Bluffs, and Klonzo trails.

Moab, UT

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Momentum Mountain Biking

Momentum Mountain Biking has been committed to providing professional, effective, and incredible mountain bike lessons to all skill levels for over a decade and is one of the most respected mountain bike instruction companies in the Southwest. In 2022 they expanded to offer tours, retreats, and custom-curated trips in Moab and other western destinations.

Moab, UT

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Red Coyote Cycling

The guides at Red Coyote Cyclery progress through a rigorous training program which allows them to offer fun and safe biking adventures for people of all ages and skill levels-even for varied experience levels within your group. They pick trails and obstacles that best fit each group’s goals, desires, and skill levels. No two trips are the same.

Virgin, UT

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Rim Mountain Bike Tours

Since 1985 Rim Tours has earned our reputation by offering the very best professionally guided mountain bike trips to Utah’s Canyon country, Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Arizona’s Grand Canyon and Sonoran Desert and Oregon’s central Cascade Mountains. Rim Mountain Bike Tours provides top quality adventures from one-day outings in Moab to multi-day trips around the west.

Moab, UT

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Utah Mountain Bike Adventures

Established in 2010, Utah Mountain Biking Adventures was created to fill a need for riders not wanting the “one size fits all” approach so common today. Their commitment to small groups and 100% focus on mountain biking means you won’t feel like a cog in the machine. Their guides are dedicated mountain biking professionals who live full-time in southwest Utah and ride there year-round. This guarantees a premium experience for you and your group.

Virgin, UT

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Utah Mountain Bike Tours

Utah Mountain Bike Tours offers a customized mountain bike service in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona for small groups of 2-6 people. We offer a private guide service for couples or small groups of friends. Our goal is to provide a unique service for a trip that people will remember for a lifetime. We also specialize in European travelers. Wir sprechen Deutsch. The company owner grew up in Bavaria, Germany and moved to the US in 2002.

La Verkin, UT

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Zion Guide Hub

Zion Guide Hub provides compelling, custom Zion National Park guided tours tailored to the unique requirements of beginners, families, and travelers seeking adventures both “off the beaten track” and classic Zion experiences. 

Springdale, UT

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Climbing in Utah

In The Company of Guides

In The Company of Guides are IFMGA licensed Mountain Guides and AMGA certified Ski Mountaineering Guides. They are based in Utah and specialize in guided backcountry skiing. They also guide ice climbing, rock climbing and big mountain expeditions. They have guided their guests to the tops of all the Seven Summits and taken people out on their first day of rock climbing. In addition to guiding, they offer a wide range of courses from avalanche courses to intro to rock climbing.

Salt Lake City, UT

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Moab Canyon Tours

Moab Canyon Tours provides a private adventure guiding experience into the beautiful canyons and/or breathtaking summits that the Moab region has to offer. Choose from suggested tours or create your own for an instructional, fun journey with safe and seasoned professionals. Moab Canyon Tours will fit any itinerary to your needs to provide a customized unforgettable experience of Moab.

Moab, UT

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Moab Cliffs & Canyons

Moab Cliffs & Canyons have earned the reputation of being the area’s Vertical Specialists by safely guiding their clients through some of the most rugged and interesting desert terrain imaginable. All trips have an important educational component to promote a deeper appreciation for the natural landscape. Half-, full-, and multi-day trips are available. Most adventures require no previous experience to enjoy.

Moab, UT

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Moab Desert Adventures

Whether you’re a first timer or a seasoned veteran, flying solo or with the whole family, Moab Desert Adventures’ guides are fully capable of helping you have the trip of a lifetime. They specialize in rock climbing and canyoneering, and are staffed by only the best and brightest in the industry.

Moab, UT

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The Mountain Guides

Climb and explore Utah’s famous red rock formations in Moab with The Mountain Guides. Whether you’re a skilled climber or a beginner looking to conquer a crack or a tower, their expert, local guides will provide a backcountry experience you’ll never forget.

Utah

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Red Desert Adventure

Red Desert Adventure trips access terrain that most visitors cannot see on their own. They provide transportation, equipment, and guides, and all of their trips are private. Red Desert Adventure offers canyoneering, rock climbing, and hiking.

Springdale, UT

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Windgate Adventures

Windgate Adventures’ professional guides provide you with fun and challenging Rock Climbing, Canyoneering, or Rappelling experiences on half or full-day tours. They offer a variety of tours for all abilities that each have their own amazing feel. Also, Windgate Adventures is one of the few guiding services to hold permits for Canyonlands and Arches National Park in the photography category.

Moab, UT

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Fishing in Utah

Beehive Fishing Company

Since 2012, Beehive Fishing Company has been providing clients with the sustainable, catch and release fly fishing experience of a lifetime. They cater to everyone. From the novice to expert fly fisher man or woman, they provide a world class adventure for you. Their goal is to adjust to your ability level to provide you with the best possible experience out on the water.

Dutch John, UT

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Chunky Trout Outfitters

Chunky Trout Outfitters is Utah’s first and only female-owned outfitters company! They guide hundreds of clients a year of all experience levels. They guide on over 3.5 million acres of public land that includes dozens of rivers and streams, and hundreds of desolate lakes with chunky trout. Chunky Trout Outfitters offers guided trips every May through October, 7 days a week. You have the opportunity to catch Tiger Trout, Brook Trout, Colorado Cutthroat Trout, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, Splake, Arctic Grayling, and Kokanee.

Torrey, UT

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Flaming Gorge Resort and Guides

Flaming Gorge Resort offers guided fishing trips on the Green River and is one of the longest running guide services with almost 40 years of experience. Their full-day trips include transportation to and from the Green River, soft drinks, hearty lunches, and an experienced guide along with their expert personal instruction throughout the year.

Dutch John, UT 

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Old Moe Guide Service

Since 1978, Old Moe Guide Service has been providing year-round drift boat, single-day fly fishing float trips, overnight fly fishing trips, with friendly guides, and an up-to-date Green River fly fishing report. All of their Green River fly fishing guides supply transportation to and from the river, flies, and tippet. 

Flaming Gorge, UT

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Park City Fly Fishing Company

Park City Fly Fishing Company guides have over 40 years of experience guiding in the Park City area and throughout Utah. Whether you’re new to fly fishing or very experienced, their guides are dedicated to getting you on the most productive water, with the right flies, using the best technique.

Park City, UT

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Spinner Fall Guide Service

Spinner Fall Guide Service is one of the Green River’s first recognized permit holders and has been an integral part of the Utah fly fishing scene since 1986. All of the guides at Spinner Fall promote ethical fly fishing practices. They utilize traditional fly fishing techniques and all of the trout they touch are safely released.

Dutch John, UT

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Stony Brook Fly Fishing

Stonybrook Fly Fishing Consultants is a hand-picked team of some of the intermountain region’s most hardcore trout experts. They guide everyone from beginner to experts.

Heber Valley, UT

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Trout Bum

Trout Bum 2 has a complete staff of highly experienced, professional Utah fly fishing guides. They have a full staff of Provo River fly fishing guides and a crew of Green River fly fishing guides that live full time on the Green. They also offer guide services on the Weber River & many other Utah waters.

Park City, UT

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Utah Fly Guides

With seasoned guides raised on the banks of Utah’s best trout streams, Utah Fly Guides is the state’s most trusted fly fishing outfitter. Serving the Salt Lake City, Provo, Park City, Ogden, and Northeastern Utah areas, they specialize in full-day and half-day excursions on Utah’s famous Provo River, Weber River, or special hidden waters around the state. UFG is not the largest or cheapest Utah fly fishing outfitter, but they aim to be the very best.

Pleasant Grove, Utah

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Utah Pro Fishing

Utah Pro Fly Fishing has guided Utah’s rivers for over 10 years. Their professional, passionate guides know the best fishing spots in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Logan. They cater each of their fly fishing trips to guests’ skill levels and interests, to ensure you have the best experience possible.

Park City, UT

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Wasatch Guide Service

Wasatch Guide Service guides can show you not only some of the best fly fishing that Utah has to offer, but some of the best fly fishing for Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and Cutthroat Trout that you will find in the western U.S.

Wallsburg, UT

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Western Rivers Flyfisher

Western Rivers Flyfisher is one of Utah’s most distinguished fly shops and guide services. It’s earned that reputation after over two decades of service. Throughout the day, their guides will employ a variety of techniques to help you optimize your fly-fishing experience.

Salt Lake City, UT

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Wilderness Trout Expeditions

Wilderness Trout Expeditions offers year-round fly fishing adventures on the blue ribbon waters of the Provo River and Weber River located within an hour of Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah. 

Park City, UT

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Wild Trout Adventures

Wild Trout Adventures operates in Utah and is expanding to Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Arkansas. A vast majority of what they offer is extremely in-depth high level classes discussing Trophy Trout Hunting using streamers and mice. In conjunction with guided trips, Wild Trout Adventures offers online educational classes focused around Trophy Trout Hunting with the topic of either Streamer Fishing or Mousing! Each season they take Hosted Trips around the world. Lastly, they offer a one-of-a-kind all inclusive lodging and guide service operation in Arkansas for diehard trophy Brown Trout hunters.

Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, & Arkansas

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Horseback Riding in Utah

Red Cliffs Adventure Lodge

Experience the fun of a horseback riding or whitewater rafting expedition, organized by their expert guides.

Moab, UT

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Zion Canyon Trail Rides at Jacobs Ranch

Zion Canyon Trail Ride at Jacobs Ranch is a unique horse-riding experience for anyone able to sit a horse. You’ll ride through some of the most breathtaking scenery available on earth; through rivers, streams, and mountainous trails, and they have night rides available during full moon cycles. 

Virgin, UT

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Off-Roading in Utah

Moab Moto Tours

Moab Moto Tours offer private, custom rides on motorcycle (dirt bike, dual sport, road) and mountain bike (fat bike, e-bike) with a mixture of pavement and moderate Jeep routes. You can sightsee dinosaur tracks, petroglyphs, hidden arches, and take photographs. They also offer advanced tours such as World-famous Hell’s Revenge, Fins n’ Things, Slickrock Trail, Poison Spider, Enduro Loop, and Sovereign Trail. 

Moab, UT

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Rafting in Utah

Big Wild Adventures

Big Wild Adventures offers both wilderness backpacking and wilderness canoeing. Each trip is a unique entity, personally planned by Big Wild owners Dave and Jesse, and scheduled for optimal time slots. Big Wild Adventures emphasizes the “wild” in the wilderness, and quality rather than quantity. Depending upon regulations and other factors, their scheduled trips are limited to 4 to 8 clients plus their guide and sometimes an assistant.

Utah, Yellowstone, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Alaska

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Holiday River Expeditions

Holiday River Expeditions specialize in River Rafting trips encompassing several stretches of rivers throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain states. Their whitewater rafting trips run through the grand canyons of every major Colorado River tributary and offer spectacular scenery and landscapes.

Salt Lake City, UT

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Moab Rafting and Canoe Company

Moab Rafting and Canoe Company offers Self-Guided Day & Overnight Canoe Trips on the Colorado River, Multi-Day Guided and Self-Guided Trips on the Green River, and Multi-Day Guided Tours on the San Juan River, as well as Camping Gear Rentals & Shuttle Service.

Moab, UT

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Red Cliffs Adventure Lodge

Experience the fun of a horseback riding or whitewater rafting expedition, organized by their expert guides.

Moab, UT

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Sheri Griffith Expeditions, Inc.

Sheri Griffith River Expeditions is the premier whitewater rafting outfitter offering ” A Touch of Class” to all of their river rafting adventures on the Green and Colorado Rivers since 1971. They offer Colorado River trips, Utah River rafting, family river rafting, one day river trips, sea kayaking canyon country trips, Moab river rafting, luxury river trips, and women’s-only retreats.

Moab, UT

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World Wide River Expeditions

Since its inception in 1971, World Wide River Expeditions has been committed to providing the safest, highest-quality river trips available. Operating with the true spirit of a family business we feel that providing the best experience possible at an affordable price is important. Whether you seek a quiet float, an intro to whitewater, raging rapids, or a combination of them all, they have the trip for you.

Moab, UT

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Skiing and Snowboarding in Utah

Park City Powder Cats

Park City Powder Cats is Utah’s largest snowcat skiing operation. They have over 43,000 private acres of Utah’s finest powder. Park City Powder Cats provides customers with pre-packed lunch, snacks, and water, and an avalanche beacon. Guests must be advanced or expert skiers and riders.

The Uinta Mountains, UT

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Powderbird

Powderbird provides premier single day and multi-day lodging packages. Their helicopter skiing/riding adventures depart daily from their heliport at Snowbird and their clubhouse in Park City. Powderbird skis on the largest commercially permitted area in Utah. With their helicopters and permitted area, they access more terrain than all of Utah’s ski resorts combined. Low-density powder blankets a variety of alpine bowls, open meadows, and chutes, drawing deep powder enthusiasts from all over the world.

Alta, UT

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School for International Expedition Training

The School for International Expedition Training designed their course to give intermediate/advanced backcountry skiers the chance to progress to the next level and learn the technical skills they need to attempt high consequence ski mountaineering descents. Their courses have small ratios so that each student receives the coaching they need.

Salt Lake City, UT

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Whisper Ridge

Whisper Ridge is a cat skiing operation located on 30,000 acres of private ski terrain in the Wasatch Mountains near Paradise, Utah.

Paradise, UT

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Skydiving/Paragliding in Utah

Skydive Ogden

Skydive Ogden has the most professional and experienced instructors.  They take pride in maintaining a high-quality level of standards. Their primary aircraft is a Grand Caravan, which provides the safest and most comfortable ride to altitude with 14 scenic windows.  The large door makes exiting the aircraft extremely easy.

Ogden, UT

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Skydive the Wasatch

Skydive the Wasatch is a new skydiving drop zone, founded by a young, highly experienced crew of athletes who love introducing new people to the delicious freedom of freefall.

Nephi, UT

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Skydive Utah

Skydive Utah offers tandem skydiving for first-timer as well as jump opportunities for experienced jumpers. You can also enroll in their Skydive program.

Erda, UT

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Snowmobiling in Utah

Unita Recreation

Uinta Recreation is a permitted outfitter to guide in the Uinta National Forest and they offer a true backcountry snowmobile experience.

Heber City, UT

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Water Sports in Utah

Adrift Adventures

Based in Moab, Utah, Adrift Adventures offers a variety of activities that will make your vacations memorable. Moab Adrift Adventures provides unexcelled excitement, quiet serenity, or a bit of both. They offer National Park 4×4 Jeep Tours, Green River/Desolation Canyon expeditions, kayaking, paddleboarding, and family trips.

Moab, UT

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Dig Paddlesports

Dig Paddlesports rents gear, guides tours, and sells kayaks and stand up paddleboards near St. George, UT, Snow Canyon State Park, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park. They offer SUP, kayak, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, and build-your-own adventures.

Hurricane, UT

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High Country Adventure

High Country Adventure offers daily rafting and inflatable kayaking trips, half and full-day historic train with rafting adventures, half and full-day fly-fishing and float excursions, tubing, canoeing and catarafting. 

Provo, UT

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Park City SUP

Park City SUP has been bringing the surf vibe to Park City since 2010. They are an award-winning outdoor adventure company that specializes in standup paddle boarding lessons, tours, festival racing, SUP yoga classes, and equipment sales and rentals. During winter months, join them for powder surfing rentals, lessons, tours, and sales featuring our fleet of Grassroots powder boards, which let you experience the thrill of surfing on powder snow with no board bindings.

Park City, UT

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Unita Recreation

Uinta Recreation is a permitted outfitter to guide in the Uinta National Forest and they offer side-by-sides, jet skis, paddleboards, and kayak rentals.

Heber City, UT

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Wild West Voyages

Classic canyon country river rafting, kayaking, or Stand Up Paddle (SUP) day tours on the Colorado River near Moab. There are private trips available too. This includes transportation from their downtown shop, safety gear, instruction, food, and drinks, and a professional guide. Wild West Voyages offer rentals for self-guided adventures including rafts, inflatable kayaks, inflatable river couch, and SUPs as well as river shuttle services.

Moab, UT

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