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The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
View of the trail to Plateau Point and Bright Angel Creek. Bright Angel Creek is a creek located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park flowing into the Colorado River at the end of the North Kaibab Trail on the north side of the river. The creek originates from Roaring Springs that emerge from a cliff along the North Kaibab Trail and ...
The Colorado River Headwaters National Scenic Byway is an 80-mile (129 km) National Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Eagle and Grand counties, Colorado, US. The byway follows the upper Colorado River from Grand Lake down to State Bridge .
Autumn is here and with it comes leaf-peeping season! Take a look at the 25 best places to see fall foliage in the U.S. this year.
Salmon River Scenic Byway, Idaho A line of golden aspens festoons a hillside in the Sawtooth Mountains in Stanley, Idaho, above Redfish Lake. - Anna Gorin/Moment RF/Getty Images
A visual journey along the Colorado River, from the headwaters to Mexico, that shows the environmental toll on the depleting resource.
Colorado River in the Grand Canyon seen from Pima Point, near Hermit's Rest. In Utah, the Colorado flows primarily through the "slickrock" country, which is characterized by its narrow canyons and unique "folds" created by the tilting of sedimentary rock layers along faults. This is one of the most inaccessible regions of the continental United ...
The names of the 17 Colorado rivers with a drainage basin of more than 10,000 square kilometers (3,900 sq mi) are shown in bold. Oceans and streams outside of Colorado are shown in italics. Pacific Ocean. Gulf of California. Colorado River [b] Green River. Yampa River 21,506 km 2 (8,304 mi 2) Little Snake River 10,629 km 2 (4,104 mi 2)