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The West Wetlands Park is a public city park [1] in the northwest edge of Yuma, Arizona. It is located along the Colorado River within the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. [2] [3] The park opened in December of 2002 [4] on 110 acres of city-owned land. [5] [6] It was partially constructed by community volunteers. [7]
Colorado Springs City Council members (9 P) D. Denver City Council members (12 P) Pages in category "Colorado city council members" The following 32 pages are in this ...
Ralph Frese, canoe maker and conservationist [1] and prominent figure in the North American canoeing circles lived from 1926 until December 10, 2012. [1] [2] [3] Frese lived in the Chicago area. He is known for promoting conservation and canoeing, building historic replica canoes (including large ones), and starting canoeing and conservation ...
Colorado City is a ghost town in what is now Yuma County, Arizona. It was located on the south bank of the Colorado River at Jaeger's Ferry , 1 mile down river from Fort Yuma . Colorado City was a land speculation , surveyed to pay for a ferry crossing fee at Jaeger's Ferry and later sold in San Francisco by Charles Poston in 1854.
Yuma Crossing is a site in Arizona and California that is significant for its association with transportation and communication across the Colorado River. It connected New Spain and Las Californias in the Spanish Colonial period in [ 2 ] and also during the Western expansion of the United States.
The Laguna Diversion Dam is a rock-filled diversion dam on the Colorado River. It is located 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Winterhaven, CA – Yuma, AZ on Imperial County route S24 . Constructed between 1905 and 1909, the dam was the first dam built on the Colorado River and subsequently ended boat travel to the north.
In 1858 the ferry became the crossing point of the Butterfield Overland Mail and Jaeger City became the location of its stage station and its local district office. In the Great Flood of 1862, the ferry, Jaeger City and Colorado City were destroyed by the flooding of the Colorado River. [1] [2]
The Colorado River is a major river of the western United States and northwest Mexico in North America. Its headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains where La Poudre Pass Lake is its source. Located in north central Colorado it flows southwest through the Colorado Plateau country of western Colorado, southeastern Utah and northwestern Arizona where ...