The Arkansas Headwaters � or AHRA � gets its unique features from the character of the Arkansas River itself. The AHRA � and its avid patrons � follow the beautiful but unpredictable, wild-to-mild river for 150 miles from the historic town of Leadville, through the Sawatch mountain range and Colorado�s tallest mountains all the way down to Pueblo on the edge of Colorado�s plains.

AHRA visitors enjoy fishing, hiking, camping, picnicking, rock climbing, and even gold panning along the river�s shores, but whitewater boating is king in the AHRA. The upper Arkansas River is the most popular whitewater boating river in the United States. On any spring or summer day, hundreds of private and commercial rafters and kayakers will challenge the churning rapids or glide through the calmer sections of the Arkansas.