Holiday Expeditions

Awards, Affiliations and Recognition

Holiday Expeditions is happy to support and participate in outdoor industry and environmental causes. Holiday's staff and officers are members and actively involved in:

America Outdoors
Utah Guide & Outfitters
Idaho Outfitters & Guides Association
Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau
Utah Rivers Council
American Rivers
Friends of the River

We're proud of our accomplishments as a company and the individual accomplishments of our team. The Ultimate Adventure Sourcebook independently ranked Holiday Expeditions as a five-star outfitter — there were only two rafting outfitters in their worldwide listing that achieved five-star status.

In 1999 Dee Holladay was presented America Outdoors' "Conservation Stewardship" Award. He also received the Utah Rivers Council Headwaters Award. Dee has been a proponent of a new river management plan undertaken by Canyonlands National Park, encouraging the superintendent to take into account various environmental threats to the park's canyons, riverways and backcountry areas.

On Oct 30, 2003, Owners, Dee & Sue Holladay and Tim Gaylord, Operations Director were presented with the Canyonlands National Park Safety Award from Park Ranger Steve Swanke. In making this award Swanke commented "In the past decade your guides have not been directly involved in a personal injury or property damage, This is a significant accomplishment considering the conditions your company routinely operates in."

On March 1, 2008 Dee & Sue Holladay, Tim Gaylord, John Wood and Tammy Jones of Holiday Expeditons were presented with a 10 Year Service Award from the University of Utah Burn Unit for their part in the Burn Camp Programs. "In grateful recognition for helping burn survivors heal and truly becoming one with the River!"

Dee is also involved as:

Member Flaming Gorge Dam Operations Citizen Workgroup.
Member State Parks Boating Advisory Council.
Past President, Utah State Chairman & Vice President, Western River Guides Association.
Past President & Vice President, Utah Guides and Outfitters Association.
Member Utah State Project 2000.
Member Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association Safety Committee.
Member of the Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the John Wesley Powell Museum.
President Worldwide Guides & Outfitters
Member National River Cleanup Week Board of Directors
Member Utah Rivers Council Board of Directors
Member Utah Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Council

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