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Outdoor Adventure Centers - OAC Tours

Outdoor Adventure Centers - OAC Tours

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Outdoor Adventure Centers - OAC Tours is a kayak & canoe livery in Cottonwood. They offer guided and self-guided kayaking and paddleboarding trips on the Verde River, which feature Class I and II rapids. Trips are 3.5 miles long and take approximately 2 hours on the water, with a total experience time of about 3 hours including check-in and shuttle.

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    Naomi Dove· a month ago

    AMAZING EXPERIENCE!! Easy signup, easy check-in and they made needed items available (vests provided, rental shoes available, affordably priced sunglasses, hat, and water available for purchase). Our guides took amazing care of our entire group. They used the drive down to the river to give us a quick tour of Cottonwood. When we arrived at the loading dock, they provided water cannons for all of us to enjoy the river and also made efforts to color coordinate our kayaks so that each group could have their own color and unloaded/ loaded all of the kayaks for everyone. They prepared us for each section with rapids and took pictures for the entire group! Such knowledgeable, friendly, and highly experienced river guides! Highly recommend even if you’ve never kayaked before.. So improessed by OAC tours!!!

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    Grace Masaoka· 5 months ago

    Had such an amazing time on this tour! The river was beautiful and peaceful, and the small rapid sections were super fun to go down! Both of our guides were awesome, knowledgeable, and made the overall experience so enjoyable. They also took lots of pictures for us! It was the perfect way to spend my last full day in Sedona before heading back home. Highly recommend this tour if you’re looking for a fun activity :)

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    Maria Lambert· 4 months ago

    Fun day with great guides. Nick and Jai were very helpful and knowledgeable. They made sure everyone was safe and helped ensure each guest safely navigated the areas of the river with rapids. The photos they took were wonderful. The Tantrum Wine room was cute. Nice relaxing way to end the day

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    Nichole Newbold· a month ago

    OAC Tours is a very family friendly and customer oriented business! Everyone is friendly and knowledgeable. My family of 6 (youngest child is 12) had an amazing experience on the guided kayak tour. The guides get into the water at any “tricky” spots to help you if needed, but they also give very clear directions so you feel comfortable in the water. To add a little fun we each got squirters to help keep each other cool. I highly recommend!

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Typical flow by month

1940 to 2026

The water at Outdoor Adventure Centers - OAC Tours typically runs highest in March, at a median 89 cfs, and lowest in June, at 19 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 14,000 cfs, in 1967.

Typical flow by month at Oak Creek near Cornville, AZ, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January4036 to 58
February4937 to 143
March8939 to 278
April3632 to 76
May2522 to 29
June1917 to 22
July2017 to 24
August2420 to 31
September2522 to 30
October2825 to 31
November3432 to 39
December3835 to 45

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 83 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Oak Creek near Cornville, AZ (site 09504500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

Current conditions

71Go/ 100 conditions scoreBest day: Fri, Sep 25 (86)

Streamflow

26 cfs

Normal (58th)

Water level

1.98 ft

High today

91°F

Wind

11 kt

Gusts 17 kt

Rain chance

2%

Week ahead

Mon91°F2%
Tue91°F3%
Wed87°F31%
Thu88°F32%
Fri86°F12%
Sat87°F4%
Sun89°F10%

Forecast from Open-Meteo global models (NOAA & ECMWF).

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