Whitewater Connection

Sophie Carrick

A couple friends and I went rafting several times this summer and had amazing guides each time! I want to shout out Patricio and Paco for their expertise and helping us have a great time. I would recommend this rafting company to everyone and am looking forward to rafting next summer!

Belle C.

Super organized, and Fun trip. We have had loads of laughter, and fun on the trip. Our guide, Devin was a blast, he was funny and very insightful. Devin was FIVE STARS all the way, thank you Devin! Also, we had a great team of fellow rafters + guides that made the calm water fun by waging water war. We booked through Groupon, and had no problem what-so-ever with the registration (granted we booked 2 mths ahead of time, as we wanted to go on labor day weekend). We did the full day raft with kids ranging from 11-15 yrs old, and all of us had fun. Definitely choose the full day rafting if you can spare the time.

Vince Rodriguez

Driver and guides were Amazing. Very funny, and amazing experience

Duane

AWA is the BEST...Let me explain why. First off they are so darn friendly. They truly care about safety and their customers. They give you a short training skill before you meet your guide, and then your guide will give you a little more detail on what should be done while rafting. Once you're in the raft the thrill begins. It's only minutes before you hit your first rapids and our guide asked us if we wanted to be adventurous. Of course we all said yes and I'm so glad we did. Once we got to the rapids our hearts were pumping like a 1000 beats per minute and laughing at the same time. My new family of friends that I just met that morning in our raft got a much bigger laugh when I fell out. Yes, I fell overboard. Not once but twice and everyone laughed so hard that their chests were hurting and they even had some tears in their eyes. It was an experience that I'll never forget. Not a bad one, I loved the heck out of it !!! We were the only raft on the water being thrill seekers and getting soaked that day. All the other rafters were dry and not being adventurous as us. My new family and I thought that was kinda boring. We wanted excitement and our guide, Paco (?) was giving us just that. We had the BEST guide on the river by far and there were tons of guides. Paco not only EXCELLENT at his job, but he also told us jokes, sang to us, teased other rafters, gave us many thrills, he pulled me into the boat twice all by himself and I'm twice his size, and he kept us safe the whole entire time. A lot of the rafts on the river were quiet. Not our raft...We were making noise, giving high 5's to one another with our oars, we were interacting with other rafters and the people ashore as well. Paco would also jump up and down from time to time inside of the raft while we were going down the river. This is something that none of us had ever seen before, and It was so COOL !!! We rafted the complete South Fork and mid way down the river we stopped and had a BBQ lunch that AWA had supplied for us. Lunch was delicious and it included a cheeseburger, chips, and cookies. For the drink you had your choice of lemonade or water. During the trip down river AWA has photographers taking pictures. These photos aren't just snapshots... They are AWESOME pictures !! At the end of the day you can purchase the digital photos. I suggest splitting the cost with others in the raft with you. That's what we did. We split the cost 3 ways and we got a vast amount of great looking photos of us hitting the rapids. I can't say enough about Action Whitewater Adventures. They're a top notch company who will keep you safe and give you a day of thrills that you'll never forget !!! The rafting experience was fabulous and I'll never forget it. However, it woulda been nice to be able to purchase a shirt to go along with the pictures we bought. For example, "I Survived The American Rapids, I Survived The American River or simply I Survived The Full South Fork or Middle Fork". Just some quick ideas. I know if there were shirts for sale, everyone in our raft would have bought one !!!