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Adventure Services

Looking for Missoula things to do? Our operations will meet your needs no matter what type of adventure services you are looking for in the great outdoors. We are your headquarters for Adventure Services in the Missoula area!

We offer for you an eco-friendly, locally guided, community oriented experience on Montana’s waters. 

Adventure Missoula offers world-class outdoor recreation experiences for tourists, local families, groups, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts. Our whitewater rafting on the legendary Alberton Gorge is a must-do, consistently ranked as the Best Day Trip in the Northwest and currently the #1 activity in Western Montana. We also provide guided fly fishing, spin fishing, and combination family float trips, scenic rafting, kayaking adventures, raft rentals, and a canopy brew pub float on the most unique raft in Montana!

Adventure Missoula an eco-conscious local outdoor tour company. We use online waivers, check ins, and reservations, source locally homemade lunches from our rooftop garden and high tunnel, and utilize solar panels to power our activities and staff at our shop. 

Heading to North Idaho? We have a sister company Coeur d’Alene Adventures that offers activities near St. Regis and the west Clark Fork Valley by the MT/Idaho border.

Scenic Rafting and Whitewater Rafting Adventures

Adventure Missoula is the original outfitter of whitewater rafting through the famed world class Alberton Gorge which began in 1976. Rafting the Clark Fork is considered to be the best whitewater rafting in the state and the #1 thing to do while visiting the area. We offer exciting rafting trips filled with class II and III whitewater rapids, and our guided fly fishing trips on the Blackfoot, Bitterroot, and Clark Fork Rivers can be enjoyed for a full day in combination with rafting.

Adventure Missoula specializes in scenic and whitewater rafting Missoula in small high end sport rafts. Our customers come back because we hire great personalities, local river kids that know the area, and staff that are passionate about what they do. We also offer a scenic trips down the beautiful Tarkio Canyon section of the Clark Fork. Participants will experience local watersheds, breathtaking scenery, wildlife, and gentle floats by local guides. On an exciting side, one can also experience the wild, free flowing water, and adrenaline rush in the canyon features on each of these rivers.

Why go with us? TOP 10 REASONS! Full day and half day fishing trips depart daily with homemade food and fresh produce straight from our roof top garden. We strive to provide exceptional, interpretive adventures in the Missoula area, while always protecting the watershed’s unique ecosystem. Our tours focus on safety and preservation…and we think it is unequaled.

Spin and Fly Fishing Adventures

Adventure Missoula offers full day and half day fishing trips on our three rivers surrounding the Missoula Valley: the Clark Fork, Blackfoot, and Bitterroot Rivers. We employ drift boats or rafts outfitted to navigate these rivers. We track the river flows, follow the hatches, and understand how the wild and unpredictable weather affects our rivers and streams. These rivers are noted for Rainbow, Cutthroat, Brown and Bull trout, while neighboring forest banks provide views of deer, elk, beaver, osprey, eagles, kingfisher, geese, and the occasional moose. Whether you are an avid fly fisherman or a novice seeking a new way to spend time in the great outdoors and want to learn to fish, our guides will suit your needs. Looking for guided fishing for fly fishing Missoula? 48 years of guiding experience under our belts has given Adventure Missoula a reputation as one of the most diverse knowledgeable guiding services for fly fishing or spin fishing in Missoula and NW Montana. Our company serves family fishing trips where we can fit more than two people on a raft. We have been featured on Fishing the West and our headquarters is right at the launch site for the world class rapids on the Alberton Gorge section of the Clark Fork River and our signature whitewater fly fishing adventure.

River City Brews Pub Style Canopy Raft Tours

Our downtown sister company, River City Brews Rafting Tours, features local beers, canopy seating, and are a fully guided raft float either through downtown Missoula or along the scenic Clark Fork Valley watershed with river pub wood bar style seating!

Guided Kayaking and Family Flotilla Adventures

We offer a guided relaxing kayak trip with a catered lunch that focuses on wildlife viewing in single and two seater commercial grade inflatable kayaks. If you have young kids but want to experience a quality river adventure without rapids, we offer a private guided and fully catered family flotilla adventure with stand up paddle boards, kayaks and a main voyage raft to have a family getaway.

Learn to Fish

This learn to fish single day course is a private customized river trip by boat that includes educational instruction, equipment, tackle and flies, lunch, and transportation; everything you’d need to learn to fish.

Raft Rentals

Full Service Adventure Missoula raft rental includes all gear, transportation of rental, private parking, changing rooms, bathrooms, shuttle, and cleaning for up to 8 guests for one day. Rentals are located at the legendary Alberton Gorge.

Lavender Farm U-Pick Experience

Our field was meant to be shared with others. Come experience a Lavender U-Pick farm visit! Harvest lavender and take some with you at our small farm in beautiful Frenchtown, Montana – 20 minutes from Missoula.

River Location

The Clark Fork is a world class whitewater river (the largest river by volume in Montana) and it’s a place we call our home with our shop just minutes from the waters edge. Located 30 minutes west of Missoula, just off of I-90, Adventure Missoula has been offering raft trips since 1976 and remains the local ma and pa rafting headquarters. We have some of the most knowledgeable and successful local fishing and rafting guides in the area. 

39 Juniper Lane Alberton MT 59820

Our Mission: Providing good times, with a sense of responsibility. 

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Our Motto: Providing good times, with a sense of responsibility.

Why Go With Us?​

  • We have solar panels that power our staff and shop.
  • We are a paperless company.
  • We provide locally sourced lunches and grow our own food for our guests at our farm and shop.
  • We employ local guides to make your trip authentic.
  • We are the oldest outfitter on the legendary Alberton Gorge Whitewater stretch (since 1976) and are loyal to it and respect its multifaceted ecosystem by leave no trace practices and utilizing reusable dishware.
  • Our adventures focus on education and recreating responsibly in our wilderness areas.
  • We believe our purpose and cause is larger than ourselves and that small intimate memorable experiences in nature have the potential to inspire change, instill values and beliefs, and should be shared with others.

Adventure Missoula acknowledges that we are in the homelands of the Salish and Kalispel people. We offer our respect for their history and culture, for their ancient and continuing presence in this landscape, and for the path they have shown us in caring for this beautiful place for generations to come.

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