San Juan River

Through folded stone and cottonwood shade, the San Juan takes the long way west. From a small boat, the river sets the pace. Everything else can wait.

THE INTERACTIVE RIVER ATLAS

Explore the San Juan.

FROM THE ARCHIVE · 39 PHOTOGRAPHS

Along the San Juan.

Photographs from the Upper San Juan.

A blue raft below cottonwoods and red rock beneath a wide sky

Boaters following the current through a red-rock canyon

Blue rafts resting on a sandy bank beside the San Juan River

The San Juan bending through the red-rock landscape

A broad rock-art panel preserved on a sandstone wall

An orange inflatable kayak beneath red canyon walls

Sunlight breaking through clouds above a shaded river canyon

River camp on a sandy bank beneath red canyon walls

Tilted red and pale rock layers beside the San Juan

Ancestral stone structures beneath a sandstone alcove

The river and canyon walls beneath large sunlit clouds

Warm sunset light beneath dramatic dark clouds

A boater standing beside a blue raft on the Upper San Juan

A blue raft beneath a shaded sandstone wall on the San Juan

Animal and human figures in a weathered rock-art panel

Closely grouped rock-art figures on an orange sandstone wall

Rock-art figures and carved lines on sandstone

The San Juan curving past a wooded bank beneath red sandstone

Two members of the river party under trees beside the river

Cottonwoods and open ground beside the San Juan River

Figures and geometric designs in a rock-art panel

Rafts moored beside a muddy river beneath a stormy sky

Low red cliffs and cottonwoods above the San Juan

A blue raft drifting below sandstone slopes under gray clouds

Boats pulled onto a sandy bank beside the San Juan

Two members of the river party smiling in rain jackets

Open water and red canyon walls beneath large clouds

Blue rafts floating below red cliffs and a bright cloud-filled sky

The San Juan flowing between layered sandstone walls

Rafts beneath steep, layered canyon walls

A green riverside bank below folded sandstone and clouds

A patterned snake on red desert soil

A snake stretched across red soil near desert grasses

The river party gathered beside blue rafts on a sandy bank

A blue raft and river gear on the edge of the San Juan

Layered red cliffs rising above the brown San Juan

Clouds over the river and sandstone slopes

Two paddlers in an orange inflatable kayak on the San Juan

Blue raft oars with open desert and distant rock formations