Natural High Rafting

It was an awesome time! It was my first time rafting and I went with my 9 year old son who was absolutely terrified. Our guide was super patient, kind and very comforting. I want to extend a very big thank you for making our rafting trip so great. I hope your chin is ok. You’re a pro at what you do and I’m sure it happened because you were making sure my son was ok not because of your paddle like you said. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I highly recommend NHR to everyone.

These guys were fantastic. Brought a group of 6 rafting and had such a good time. They are very professional and take the time to prep you before every situation so you feel safe. Would not hesitate to raft with this company again!

I went with my family yesterday to go white water rafting with natural high rafting. We had an absolute blast! The river was amazing and the rapids rocked our world! Jim was our guide and he was extremely personable and made us feel very safe. Thanks Jim! We will definetly recommend them to anyone who asks and will use them anytime we want to go rafting. Thanks to all the guys at natural high!

We had an excellent day on the Deschutes with the Natural High Rafting folks. A few previous reviews had me a bit worried, but it appears that they have cleaned up their act. Everything was handled very professionally — from the reminder email with detailed instructions the day before, the greeters when we pulled up, the head guide who was very thorough about the instructions, and our guide, Trevor. The guides are a bunch of really nice guys from the Sellwood area that really just want to be sure everyone is comfortable and having a great time. I highly recommend them — and the Groupon was nice, too!

My heart is so full of JOY!!! Had an amazing Epic awesome rafting trip on the Deschutes River. We had the option of going left on a class 4 and just doing rapids… Or go right and take the waterfall drop. We took the drop. It was FREAKING AWESOME!!! I feel so amazingly blessed to have been able to experience this with my family. Excellent instruction provided, our guide Jim was friendly and personable, and great maps/​instructions provided for where to meet. We can’t wait to go back again! A+

I took my mom rafting with NHR for her birthday. She was nervous, but everyone there made her feel comfortable and made sure that everybody rafting that day had an awesome time.
They sent out a map with detailed instructions on how to get to the meet up location in Maupin. We left from Portland and had no trouble finding it. It was about a two hour drive.
They prepare you well for the trip and you can tell these guys are experts. Our guide’s name was Teddy and he let us know exactly what to do when we went through a rapid. I don’t think anyone on our raft had a negative thing to say about the trip. I highly recommend NHR :)

A trip was bought for us using living social. It wasn’t a bad deal, until the day of our trip. My wife and I were in from Colorado celebrating our one year wedding anniversary. We had a friend from Washington down, and a friend up from Salem. We drove out to Maupin. The company does not have an office out there, and when we asked the local market they never heard of the company. Once we finally got contact with the guy that was supposed to be our guide, he claimed we were not booked for that morning. We assured him that we were and he asked us to come back in the afternoon. We agreed, however when we went back he never showed. Once we finally got cell service, we got a voicemail from him telling us that he was stuck in traffic, he was no where near us, and we had dinner plans that night. He then started texting my wife asking us to come back different days. We let him know that doesn’t work, and he continued to text. He did stop. We will NEVER USE this company and urge others to avoid as well!

Not my first trip out of Maupin but absolutely my best. We went on a group trip in August and it was SO FUN! Dan is awesome. He made sure we had the most fun on the Deschutes that a group of rafting adventure seekers could possibly have. We also loved all of his stories about the local history! I still have the Natural High song stuck in my head. I would recommend them to anyone. Thanks, Dan, for making our birthday adventure so great!

Gotta love Dan the river man. I went out with a group of 11 this August, and a group of 8 last in August of 2013. Both times we had a blast.
Dan’s great, a very positive guy who knew his stuff on the river, down to the rocks we might step underwater when we got out to walk to the natural slides. Dan, and the other guides he works with have all be amazing, encouraging, and friendly.
There may be plenty of options for guided tours, but my group and I chose Natural High two summers in a row for good reason.
Dan, if you’re reading this, it’s the Schmeltzer group and had a great time again. I’m sure we will be back again!

My friends and I had a completely wonderful experience with Dan as our guide. He was an amiable leader and also made us feel completely safe taking risks. He even told us amazing tidbits of Oregon history as we floated down the deschutes. His knowledge of the area and river was really wonderful. I would definitely go with Dan again and recommend him to friends!

I couldn’t tell you how the river trip was as they didn’t show up and take us. We paid of course. Sure, the river seemed nice, but I wouldn’t know. Seemed we were not significant enough to follow through with our agreement. I’d sooner put large shards of bamboo under my nails and dip my face in molten nickel than do any business with these turds. Message to employees and owner: Put the bong down and show up for work like the rest of us do, that’s how you rise above the horror that you will inevitably face down the road. Trust me when I say this, you are all getting older and you’d be better off taking this seriously and working harder now. You can thank me later.

Dan was an awesome guide for my trip with 7 people! Lots of fun, good times and adventure. Even though most of us didn’t know how to swim, it was exciting with lots of time to soak the sun and see the nature around us. Loved/​disliked the off-​raft hike we went on to go down a waterslide. Loved the experience myself but also disliked it because of my raftmates (haha) and what they put me through. It was a good time to make memories and all in all, though we were really spent by the time we neared the end, we regret not trying the cliff jump into the water. Lots of stuff to do and lots to learn from your guide, Dan. I highly recommend it!

Dan Alsup took a group of seven of us on a 14 mile adventure yesterday, and we had an absolute blast. He was fun, funny, great with the kids, and showed us an awesome way to experience the Deschutes. NHR provided a nice lunch of cold bbq chicken, macaroni salad, fresh fruit and veggies, cookies and lemonade, and there was plenty of all of it for our hungry group. They even had water cannons for us to play with during the slow parts of the river. The signup process was a little cumbersome ~ but totally worth it. What was lacking in front office skills was made up for where it mattered. Great outfit.