NPS accepting 2022 Grand Canyon river trip lottery applications

PHOENIX —  Grand Canyon National Park is now accepting lottery applications for noncommercial river trip permits for 2022.

Applications to raft the Colorado River opened Monday and will be available until noon on Feb. 23.

A total of 246 permits for the calendar year will be issued for the 12 or 25-day trips.

Individuals must be 18 or older to apply and can only participate in one river trip — commercial or noncommercial — per year.

Those who go on a trip must have technical whitewater experience and the excursions must be self-guided.

The park service hosts the lottery every February and typically conducts follow-up lotteries to reassign canceled or leftover trips.

More information on the lottery can be found on the Grand Canyon website.

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