Plan Your Colorado Vacation in Royal Gorge Country

This is the official tourism website of the Fremont County Tourism Council. The Royal Gorge is located in Fremont County, Colorado just west of Canon City. Here in our part of the world, there is so much to do! Take a look around and contact us for a full visitor’s guide.

Summer Vacations With Unique Scenery

Come stay with us in beautiful Royal Gorge Country, where you'll experience one of the most spectacular and fun-filled areas in the world! The Royal Gorge makes the perfect back drop for Colorado vacations. This website has the Official travel information to the Royal Gorge country for lodging, dining, the bridge, whitewater rafting, trains, site seeing, and recreation.

Free Visitor Guide & eBrochure

Get the Royal Gorge Visitor Guide and see all your options for adventure travel, heritage travel, and family vacations. Or, download an eBrochure to get some quick vacation ideas for fond memories.

The Royal Gorge

The Royal Gorge (also Grand Canyon of the Arkansas) is a canyon on the Arkansas River near Cañon City, Colorado. With a width of 50 feet at its base and a few hundred feet at its top, and a depth of 1.200 feet in places, the 10-mile-long canyon is a narrow, steep crevasse through the granite of Fremont Peak.

About 3 million years ago as the Rocky Mountains rose from the surrounding plains, a small rivulet that would become the Arkansas River rose with them. Over the millennia, it cut a deep channel for itself through the surrounding granite, at a rate of about one foot every 2,500 years. The gorge's peculiar shape, contrasted to broad canyons such as the Grand Canyon, can be attributed to this long, direct erosion through hard rock.