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Aerial view of the Animas River coming out of Durango The Animas River between Cedar Hill, New Mexico, and the Colorado border. The Animas river is a major white water rafting attraction accounting for 8.9% of Colorado's commercial rafting market while annually generating 45,411 commercial user days and direct expenditures of $5,207,033 (2011 ...
Riverfest, the annual, three-day celebration in Animas and Berg Parks, typically attracts approximately 30,000 people. Mix of new attractions, old favorites planned as Riverfest returns to ...
Tom Taylor, who served as mayor of Farmington from 1986 to 1998, said the idea of extending Piñon Hills Boulevard south over the Animas River came up midway through his tenure, with the project ...
Hermosa Creek is a tributary of the Animas River in San Juan and La Plata counties in Colorado. The creek rises near Hermosa Peak in San Juan County, Colorado and then flows generally south to La Plata County and to its confluence with the Animas River in Hermosa.
Lake Nighthorse is a reservoir created by the 270 feet (82 m) high Ridges Basin Dam [1] southwest of Durango in La Plata County Colorado.As part of the Animas-La Plata Water Project, Lake Nighthorse provides water storage for tribal and water right claim-holders along the Animas River.
The Animas Action Plan calls for creating a framework that could be used to create a common identity for and improve the aesthetics of the area while also incentivizing future private development.
More than 100 bridges and 300 miles (480 km) of railroad tracks were destroyed in the Colorado part of the river basin alone, completely cutting off transport and communications. Along the Animas River, "virtually all the crops" were destroyed. [80] On the lower river, most of Bluff was inundated and 1,000 acres (400 ha) of farmland was swept away.
Starting in Granby, the river is roughly paralleled by U.S. Highway 40 to the town of Kremmling, and by the tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad until about the Utah border, carrying the Amtrak California Zephyr passenger train. The canyons and valleys of the Upper Colorado River are among the scenic attractions for passengers on this rail route.