Riverboarding Full Day Trips include lunch. Few experiences rival the sheer fun, intensity, and comradery that a group riverboarding adventure creates.
River Classification
Class II to III
Trip Length
4-7 hours
Minimum Age
14 years and older
Departures
9am, 2pm
If you love the water and are ready for the ultimate whitewater experience, riverboarding the Alberton Gorge is unbeatable summer adventure. You’ll get to swim between 4 and 16 miles of the Alberton Gorge–surfing waves along the way.
Getting Ready: Your guide will provide an overview of the day and outfit you with the right equipment. We’ll outfit you with a helmet, wetsuit, fins, life jacket, booties and a riverboard. Everyone should be a solid swimmer and be in good physical condition. Guests must read and sign an acknowledgment of risk form before the trip. While we have great safety record, you need to recognize that there are inherent dangers in whitewater and that riverboarding involves a certain amount of risk. Having noted that, we start each trip with an orientation, safety talk, and practice the basics before running sections of whitewater as a team.
Group adventures on the Alberton Gorge-Riverboarding
Group Trips and Special Occasions: Few experiences rival the sheer fun, intensity and camaraderie that a group riverboarding adventure creates. Whether it’s a bachelor or bachelorette party, a group of co-workers, a team building excursion or just a group of friends looking for a Montana’s best summer adventure, riverboarding is an unforgettable shared adventure that will leave you smiling and looking forward to your next “board meeting”.
The Alberton Gorge
The Gorge is an ideal location for guided riverboard trips. It is a high volume (2,000 to 40,000 CFS), pool and drop river with large recovery pools after each of its Class II and III Rapids. Because of its volume, the Clark Fork is not considered a technical run and is relatively free of obstructions. The rapids are characterized by obvious entry points with large waves caused by a combination of constriction and deep channel drops. Bottom line: the Alberton Gorge whitewater is one of the world’s best spots to learn how to maneuver and surf while riverboarding. We run trips from June through September. The snowpack looks great this year. Expect huge water and fast runs through early July. As the river level drops through July and August more rocks and features appear along with more potential surf waves.
We have taken many rafting trips over the years and hands down this was one of the best ones yet!!! We took a private full day rafting tour with river side picnic and couldn’t have had a better time!! Our guide set up the best lunch spread at the waterside including fresh fruit and veggie trays, salad, sandwiches, chips/salsa, and the best homemade cookies!!! We had many stops, chances to swim, small cliff jumping, and the most beautiful scenery!!! Shout out to Amy as being the most fun guide to our crazy “Billy Goat Cyrus” group from Texas!!! Request her and you won’t be disappointed!!!
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Our Montana River Guide trip down the Clark Fork was the highlight to our Montana vacation. Our guide let us paddle some while we were going thru the rapids which was an awesome experience. Weather and sun on the morning trip made for some great pictures.
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We did a scenic float with our young kids. This was the absolute best thing we did our whole trip! So beautiful, so much fun. Amy was our guide and she was incredibly fun, knowledgable and kind. Cannot wait to float with them again!
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There were three of us over 60 year old gals on our trip. Our guide, Jack, was outstanding. We felt safe and secure under his care the whole time while having the time of our lives. The beautiful scenery and wildlife were a bonus to the incredible river with its rapids along with calm areas to relax & enjoy the ride. Top on my list of the other incredible things we did this summer.
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One of the best experience in the US was spending our Sunday with Montana River Guides! The crew was able to accommodate to over 60 of us on the YSEALI alumni tour and all of us thoroughly enjoyed our time on the river - Whitewater Rafting or Scenic Tour. Guides are 100% professionals who have fun with safety in mind. Highly recommend and must visit when you're in Montana. Thanks for the memories!