High spring snow runoff has the Durango rafting community excited about this year’s summer season. Durango Rivertrippers & Adventure Tours expects a big year for business while Mild to Wild Rafting ...

At the Durango Fish Hatchery, two new signs were recently put up. The first one forbids overnight parking. Fair enough. But then there’s this curious one prohibiting “vessel launching and takeout.” ...

Two years ago, Saturday, three million gallons of polluted water poured into the Animas River in Southwestern Colorado turning the water a brackish yellow. An Environmental Protection Agency crew ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DURANGO — Animas River water levels sank to less than a third of average for a second consecutive low-flow year, revealing sharp rocks, which complicate a ...

Rafters on the Animas river near Durango, Colorado, in 2016. Usually by mid-August, Colorado’s river flows weaken. Streams dribble and rafting is usually all but over. But maybe not this year.