High Plains Scuba Center has proudly called Fort Collins home since 1983, making us the oldest and largest dive center in Northern Colorado and Wyoming. For more than four decades, we have built our reputation on a passion for diving, travel, and aquatic education.
Our team of experienced divers, instructors, and travel specialists is dedicated to helping others discover and enjoy the underwater world. From local lake dives to bucket-list ocean adventures, we create meaningful, memorable experiences supported by a full-service travel department focused on delivering seamless, customized dive travel.
We also take pride in developing the next generation of water enthusiasts through our youth swim program, which emphasizes water safety, confidence, and skill-building in a supportive environment.
Today, we combine time-tested expertise with modern training, state-of-the-art equipment, and an 88-degree indoor pool that provides year-round comfort for learning and practice. Whether you are just beginning or continuing to advance your skills, our programs are designed to meet you where you are.
At the heart of High Plains Scuba Center is our Ohana spirit—a sense of community, connection, and shared adventure. Through our membership program, we extend that experience beyond the classroom and pool, offering ongoing support, exclusive benefits, and opportunities to stay engaged in the diving lifestyle.
From your first breath underwater to your next great adventure, High Plains Scuba Center provides the expertise, resources, and community to help you explore with confidence.
High Plains Scuba Center offers the finest in professional education, quality travel services, state of the art equipment, and an onsite heated pool.
We tap into our thirty years of experience with arranging and hosting dive trips to create itineraries that our customers love.
All classes are a 1 to 1 student to teacher ratio, so swimmers get individualized attention while learning skills.
Decades of experience have taught us there are four requirements to the ultimate in diver safety. These four requirements are the foundation of our training.
What better way to experience being able to breathe and swim underwater than in the comfort of our 88 degree indoor heated pool. Under the supervision of our experienced diving instructors this one hour “Try Scuba” session is designed for you to put on a complete set of scuba equipment, get in the water and actually see what’s like to be a Scuba Diver.
