About Us

Thanks for asking our favorite question. Your whole experience with us is important.

Not all companies are the same. Here are the reasons to choose MWD:

• All seats come with foot cones to help keep you in the raft.
• All seats have an extra thwart handle to help keep you in the raft.
• Free splash jackets and fleece to keep you warm.
• All self-bailing rafts (no 5-gallon buckets).
• Full kayak style helmets on all trips.
• DVD’s of your trip to music.
• Paddler’s Pub, volleyball, horseshoes, BBQ and more.
• Brad is the only owner that guides rafts down the Poudre. Hey, it’s a fun business!!.
• Safety kayak or cataraft on all high water trips.  No other Poudre company offers this.
• The most experienced guides on the Poudre with an average experience over 6 years.
• No Double runs to make trips longer (other companies run a 2.5 mile stretch twice – ours is 8 miles continuous).
• Our five acre park, including volleyball, hot tub and BBQ area are FREE to use for all of our guests.
• We have received an outstanding rating from the U.S.F.S. six years in a row! The previous years they didn’t conduct the reviews
• We are the only Poudre company to offer overnight trips and guided ducky trips.
• We offer special packages that will save guests time and money on their vacations.
• 2nd place American Whitewater photo contest – 2007

• Colorado Enterprise Fund “Success Story” – 2000 & 2008
• BBB A+ Rating
• Environmental Leader – FC Chamber of Commerce -2008
• Finalist BBB Torch Awards for Business Ethics – 2009
• 11 employees with advanced medical training – 2012
• Winner of the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Environmental Business Award in 2011
• 156 combined years worth of experience from our guides in 2012
• Arlene Nededog Merchant Award 2007
• Best in Business-Best Place to Work 2007
• Best in Business-Rising Business Star 2007
• Best in Business-Family/Small Business of the Year 2007
• 2010 Business Innovator to the Year – Director of Fun, Ben Costello
• Mountain Whitewater Descents Honored Member #3158 in good standing of the Paddlesports Industry Association
• President Brad Modesitt 40 under Forty Class of 2008
• Fort Collins area Chamber of Commerce 100 Best Businesses 2004
• Mountain Whitewater Descents member of Fort Collins area Chamber of Commerce since 2001
• “American Dream Town.” Fort Collins rated as one of the Best Towns in the U.S.: Outside Magazine – August 2005
• Gold level Bicycle Friendly Community: League of American Bicyclists – September 2008
• Silver Level member of City of Fort Collins Climatewise Program 2010
• Organizer of Cache La Poudre River Clean Up
• The Cache La Poudre River is Colorado’s only “Wild and Scenic River”
• Creators of “Professionally Guiding Whitewater” a book on guiding whitewater in a professional manner

We are professionals and are excited to show you our beautiful state and river!!!