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Topock Gorge is a mountainous canyon and gorge section of the Colorado River, located between Interstate 40 and Lake Havasu. The town of Needles, California, to the northwest, was named for the "needle-like" vertical rock outcroppings. The natural landmarks and river crossing by them were one of the journey markers for travelers on historic ...
Lake Havasu Shoreline Sites – BLM; Lake Havasu News Archived 2016-02-22 at the Wayback Machine "Metropolitan Water Department of Southern California" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-24. (212 KiB) Arizona Boating Locations Facilities Map; USGS – Real-time water data for Lake Havasu near Parker Dam
Old and historic US Highway 66 (Route 66) Santa Fe underpass built in 1945 Santa Fe Water Tank on the historic Route 66 built in 1906 Topock Marsh. Topock was originally called Mellen, a railroad station and steamboat landing, at the site where the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad built the Red Rock Bridge, a steel cantilever bridge across the Colorado River in May 1890 after three of its earlier ...
The refuge protects 30 river miles - 300 miles (480 km) of shoreline - from Needles, California, to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. One of the last remaining natural stretches of the lower Colorado River flows through the 20-mile-long (32 km) Topock Gorge.
The Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge protects the lower course of the Bill Williams River, to its mouth at Lake Havasu reservoir, in western Arizona. [2] It is located within eastern La Paz and Mohave Counties, in the Lower Colorado River Valley region. The federal wildlife refuge is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife ...
Copper Canyon may also refer to: The Copper Canyon Railway through the Copper Canyon in Mexico; Copper Canyon, Texas, a town in Denton County, Texas; Copper Canyon, a small canyon on the lower Chemainus River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; A canyon in Death Valley National Park; A canyon in Lake Havasu; Copper Canyon Press, a ...
The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869–1930), a mining engineer who made a fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape ...
Mile 157.3 – Havasu Canyon is a beautiful turquoise-watered side canyon. Havasu Canyon Rapid (3) follows immediately downstream. Mile 165.0 – 164 Mile Rapid (2) Mile 167.0 – National Rapid (2) Mile 168.5 – Fern Glen Rapid (2) 1950's replica dories at Havasu Canyon (Mile 157.3) Mile 171.9 – Gateway Rapid (3)