38° 34′ N · 109° 33′ W · Slickrock rim to the Colorado River · Ground 09
Thirteen thousand feet over the canyons.
The desert does the rest of the falling for you.
No other ground in America sells this much air. The rock here is cut into fins, rims and 400-foot walls, and almost every way down one of them is for sale somewhere in town – out of a plane, off a cliff on a rope, over an edge on a rappel line, or through six named rapids on the Colorado. Scrolling means falling. We show you every stop on the way down, with real prices, and we say plainly where the booking platforms have nothing.
Stop 1 · Tandem skydive · Canyonlands Field
13,000FT ABOVE THE GROUND
The plane climbs until the arches are just cracks in the rock and the Colorado is a thread of mud. Then the door goes, and the desert comes up at you at two hundred feet a second for a full minute.
Not on any booking platform. Around 5,700 people a month look for a Moab skydive and GetYourGuide has nothing for it: Skydive Moab takes bookings itself at the airfield north of town. The photo shows the canyon country from the air, which is exactly what you get for the first minute.
↓ Above your pulse limit – keep falling
You stand on the lip of a four-hundred-foot wall in a harness, with a rope that does nothing at all for the first few seconds. Everything in you says no. Then you step off anyway and the canyon swings.
Not the one from the video. The famous Corona Arch swing is gone: after a death in 2013 the state stopped commercial swinging there, and in 2015 the BLM banned roped activities at Corona Arch and Gemini Bridges outright. What still runs is a BLM-permitted cliff swing elsewhere near Moab, booked directly with the outfitter – GetYourGuide has nothing for it. The photo is Corona Arch itself, where you may now only walk.
↓ Above your pulse limit – keep falling
Stop 2 · Rope swing · a 400-foot cliff near Moab
400FT OF CLIFF
Stop 3 · Rappelling · Morning Glory, Negro Bill Canyon
100FT OF ROPE
The guide ties in, points at the lip and waits. You lean back against nothing, the sandstone tips away, and then you are hanging in the shade of one of the longest natural bridges in the country, spinning slowly.
No experience needed, but it is a hike. The Morning Glory route walks in through a canyon before anyone touches a rope, and the other canyons – Bow and Arrow, Ephedra's Grotto, Chamisa – are the same idea with different walls. Guided only; the anchors are not for visitors to rig.
↓ Above your pulse limit – keep falling
Red walls on both sides, the Fisher Towers standing over the put-in, and six named rapids between you and the take-out. It is not a fight with the river – it is the river showing you the canyon from the floor.
Two different rivers, same water. The Fisher Towers stretch is scenery with waves in it and works for families; Westwater Canyon, upstream near the Colorado line, is the Class III–IV day that fills up months ahead. Spring runoff makes both of them bigger and colder.
↓ Above your pulse limit – keep falling
Stop 4 · Whitewater · Fisher Towers stretch
0FT · ON THE RIVER
The slickrock trail above town is the most-booked thing in Moab: fins, bowls and climbs steep enough that the machine does the frightening part for you. The full days go the other way – deep into Canyonlands and Arches on dirt.
A 4x4 ride up to the rim, six lines, a hundred-foot suspension bridge between two sandstone fins and a 1,300-foot finale. The operator publishes no height above the ground, which is the only reason it is not a stop in the fall above.
Wall Street sits right beside the river road, which is why Moab teaches more first-time leaders than almost anywhere. Half days go out with a guide, ropes and shoes included.
Six thousand people a month look for a horse ride in southern Utah – more than for anything else on these grounds. The best-reviewed rides are three hours west, down among the hoodoos.
Twenty minutes down the Colorado corridor past Corona Arch, or an hour over Canyonlands. No adrenaline, but the only way to see how deeply this country is cut without jumping out of anything.
| Activity | Pulse | The number | Duration | From | Reviews | Bookable online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tandem skydive · Canyonlands Field | 5/5 | 13,000 ft above ground | — | not on GetYourGuide | — | book direct |
| Rope swing · 400-ft cliff | 5/5 | 400 ft of cliff | 3–4 h | not on GetYourGuide | — | book direct |
| Rappelling · Morning Glory | Book now → | |||||
| Canyoneering · Bow and Arrow | Book now → | |||||
| Zipline · Sand Flats rim | Book now → | |||||
| Whitewater · Fisher Towers | Book now → | |||||
| Whitewater · Westwater Canyon | Book now → | |||||
| UTV · Hell's Revenge | Book now → | |||||
| 4x4 · Canyonlands and Arches | Book now → | |||||
| Horseback · Bryce Canyon | Book now → | |||||
| Helicopter · Corona Arch | Book now → |
Yes – Skydive Moab jumps from the airfield north of town over Arches, Canyonlands and the Colorado River. The operator sells a 13,000-foot above-ground jump at $269, “our longest free-fall and the altitude the pros jump from”, and a cheaper 8,000-foot version at $189. You book with them directly; there is no Moab skydive on GetYourGuide (checked Sept 21, 2026).
Not at Corona Arch. Commercial swinging there was stopped in 2013 after a death, and in 2015 the BLM banned roped activities at Corona Arch and Gemini Bridges. A BLM-permitted outfitter still runs a rope swing off a 400-foot cliff near Moab from $299 for ages 8 and up – booked directly, not through a platform.
The Morning Glory route has “two 100+ feet rappels”, one of them beside Morning Glory Natural Bridge, and takes about five hours with a minimum age of 10. Bow and Arrow, Ephedra's Grotto and Chamisa are the other half-day canyons; all of them are guided, and none of them need previous experience.
The Fisher Towers half day is the standard: seven miles, six named rapids from Class I to III, red walls the whole way, about $97–110 on GetYourGuide. If you want real whitewater, Westwater Canyon runs Class III–IV as a nine-hour day at about $237. Spring runoff makes both bigger.
A slickrock 4x4 trail on the fins above Moab – the most-booked adventure in town. Guided UTV and jeep runs cost about $135–191 per person for two to three hours, and you can either drive your own machine or ride with a guide.
Neither is bookable here. Around 2,000 people a month search for a Utah via ferrata and roughly 900 for a bungee jump, and GetYourGuide had nothing for either in these grounds when we checked on Sept 21, 2026. Moab's free fall comes out of an aircraft or off a rope.
Spring and autumn. The National Park Service says Arches summer temperatures “often exceed 100ºF, making strenuous exercise difficult”, while April–May and mid-September–October average 60 to 80 degrees. Rafting season runs into October; outside it the canyons are still open, but the river trips stop.