Are we allowed out of the country for this story? Best rafting river, or at least the most dangerous I've done so far is Kicking Horse River in B.C...it will knock your socks off!
Green River by Park City, Utah is also a good trip. Class III, so it's juuuust exciting enough to be a thriller, but nowhere near the death trap that Kicking Horse was. Even my mom likes it. :p
If you want to stick them in the middle of nowhere, there's plenty of rafting down the Kenai and is just a train-hop away from the Girdwood station in Alaska. There's plenty of rivers in that area where you can get out and walk around the shore, and it's a lot more...let's commune with nature and bird-watch, etc. Oh, and rafting in and out of the glaciers is just gorgeous.
My quick rafting .02. Come find me if you want them to take on any 10 foot rafting waves.
JD
