2025 Annual River Basin Tour - Southwest

2025 Annual River Basin Tour - Southwest River Basin

Our 2025 Annual River Basin Tour will be held June 3-4, 2025, and will feature the Southwest River Basin. Early-Bird registration pricing available through May 15. WEco members receive an additional discount. 

What you’ll experience on the tour

• Riding on a comfortable, climate-controlled coach bus with fellow tour participants through a beautiful part of Colorado!
• Exposure to local water characteristics, uses and values, plus the priorities and projects of the Southwest Basin Roundtable.
• Visiting multiple natural, municipal, and agricultural sites around the Arkansas River Basin.
• Tours of natural and built infrastructure between Silverton and the Ute Mountain Reservation, ranging from multi-stakeholder reservoir projects, acid mine drainage cleanup, innovative farming practices, wildfire mitigation work, and much more.
• Speakers with broad perspectives discussing water issues and how water ties into other sectors.
• On-the-ground examples of novel techniques driving water innovation and sustainability.
• Two full days of learning and exploration!

Event Details

The tour will start and end in Durango. Partcipants will be responsible for booking their own hotel room for one or more nights. WEco will provide details for a discounted room block for the hotel where we will start and end each day. Drop off to alternate locations will not be available.

A draft itinerary will be posted soon. 

Schedule Overview

June 2

Arrival for those staying in Durango the night before the tour

June 3

7:30am Tour welcome at hotel (TBD)

8:00am Bus departs from hotel

8:00pm Bus returns to hotel

June 4

8:00am Load bus

8:10am Bus departs from hotel

5:00pm Bus returns to hotel and tour ends