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August 23, 2025, marks the 67th anniversary of the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration. A historic tragedy in Grand Canyon changed American Aviation forever.
Answers to our guests’ most common questions about the fire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon.
Whether you’re celebrating Christmas today or other holidays throughout this wintry season, we are wishing you and your family the best. As we’re huddling under blankets or around the fire, there is no warmer thought than the experiences we’ve shared with our loved ones (and with all of you) in our favorite place: Grand Canyon.
We hope you are thinking back fondly on the times you’ve spent with us at this time of year, too. (Maybe you’re even planning a repeat adventure?)
Most importantly, we hope this holiday season has brought you an opportunity to rest, relax, and spend quality time with those who matter most to you.
We’re out of the office enjoying a much needed break until January 2nd. If you have a payment on an upcoming trip due while we’re out, don’t worry we will be happy to take care of it in January.
Did you know Hatch River Expeditions once sent a Ford LTD on a raft down the Colorado River? The year was 1967, and Ford wanted to show its vehicles being thrashed about on the rustic backcountry Colorado River and then driving away unscathed. The company...
Flashback Friday: 1984 Ted Hatch Interview - Part 2 On the origins of the Hatch family in Utah and how the motorized rafts came to be used in Grand Canyon UPDATE 6.20.25: We found the commercial! We'll post the whole story of how we came to find this...
In 1935 Eva Hatch and Doris Calder become the first women to raft the Yampa and Green rivers! Here’s what a local newspaper had to say.
