Las Vegas Grand Canyon Helicopter and Rafting

Combine a Grand Canyon helicopter flight with a river raft float or kayak trip on the Colorado River for an incredible and exciting day tour from Las Vegas! Enjoy a scenic 90-minute (round-trip) helicopter flight over Hoover Dam, Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon's West Rim. You'll also take part in either a relaxing river float down the Colorado River or a kayak tour through Black Canyon with an informative guide. Return transportation to your Las Vegas hotel is included. Please note: The order in which you do the activities may differ.

What's included:

• Bottled water and boxed lunch (Rafting Trip Only)
• 90-minute (approx.) round-trip flight in a state-of-the-art helicopter
• Round-trip transportation by deluxe van
• All taxes and fees
• Colorado River Float OR Kayak Trip

Not included:

• Gratuity is optional
• Lunch (Kayak Trip Only)

What to expect:

Duration: 11 hours

Hoover Dam

81 Hoover Dam Access Road, Boulder City, 89005, Nevada

After hotel pickup, board your state-of-the-art helicopter for a 70-minute (round-trip) scenic air tour of the Grand Canyon West Rim. Your flight will take off from Boulder City, where builders of the Hoover Dam (formally the Boulder Dam) lived during the dam’s construction in the 1930s. Enjoy panoramic, 180-degree views of the impressive Hoover Dam, the bypass bridge and Black Canyon, and fly past the extinct and colorful volcano, Fortification Hill.

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Hoover Dam Bypass

U.S. Route 93, , Las Vegas, Nevada

Fly around the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge

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Fortification Hill

Las Vegas, Nevada

Fly over the extinct volcano known as Fortification Hill

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Colorado River

Nevada

Then descend beneath the rim of the Grand Canyon as you fly over the mighty Colorado River, past million-year-old geological rock formations.

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Grand Canyon West

5001 Diamond Bar Road, 86434, Arizona

Make sure to have your camera ready, as around every corner you’ll see cathedral buttresses and pillars with amazing natural vivid colors. After leaving the Grand Canyon, enjoy views of other natural wonders in the wilderness of the rugged Mojave Desert.

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Black Canyon City Visitor's Center and Chamber of Commerce.

34301 S Old Black Canyon Hwy, Suite #3, Black Canyon City, 85324-9728, Arizona

Upon landing in Boulder City, if you choose the rafting trip, you'll take a short drive down to the Colorado River launch area for your river float at the base of the Hoover Dam and the newly constructed bypass bridge. Here you'll be greeted by your friendly guide, who will help you board your comfortable river raft or kayak. Float or paddle down the river and through the Black Canyon, with high walls that will leave you breathless! Enjoy a picnic lunch at Willow Beach. Keep your eyes open for desert bighorn sheep, osprey, and great blue heron in their natural setting.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Willow Beach

Fort Mohave, 86445-9544, Arizona

If you choose the Kayak option, your day will start with hotel pick up and then a drive to Willow Beach on the Colorado River, just a little way down from Hoover Dam. Board your kayak and paddle 4 miles (approximately 3 hours) along the banks of Colorado River. Opportunites to views local nature is common as you may view the amazing agility of the mountain goat and soaring splendor of various eagle breeds. Please Note: Lunch is not included in this option.
Following your kayak trip, you'll take to the skies on your helicopter tour through the Grand Canyon.

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included