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The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about 162 miles (261 km) long. [ 3 ] It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the centennial celebration of Zion National Park .
The Virgin River Gorge, located between St. George, Utah, and Beaver Dam, Arizona, is a long canyon carved out by the Virgin River in northwest Arizona. [1] The Virgin River created the topography of both Zion National Park and the Virgin River Gorge. Interstate 15 runs through the canyon and crosses the Virgin River several times. The Virgin ...
The Virgin River runs south through upland aspen forest from near Navajo Lake at 9,200 feet (2,800 m) elevation, 11 miles (18 km) to Chamberlain's Ranch, 5,900 feet (1,800 m) where the through-hike of The Narrows starts. The river turns west and a gorge starts to form within 2 miles (3.2 km).
Virgin is a town in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 596 at the 2010 census. The first settlement at Virgin was made in 1858. [4] It is located along the Virgin River (for which it is named), [5] and not far from Zion National Park. The elevation is 3,606 feet (1,099 m). It lies on State Route 9.
Zion Canyon (also called Little Zion, Mukuntuweap, Mu-Loon'-Tu-Weap, and Straight Cañon; weap is Paiute for canyon) is a deep and narrow gorge in southwestern Utah, United States, carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River. Nearly the entire canyon is located within the western half of Zion National Park. [1]
The Virgin River drains southwest Utah and southeast Nevada; parts of Arizona, especially the Arizona Strip region drain southwards into the Virgin River and Valley. The Virgin Valley begins as the Virgin River exits the Virgin River Gorge between the Beaver Dam Mountains and Wilderness north, and the northeast of the Virgin Mountains on the ...
Watershed of the Colorado River. The Colorado River is a major river in the Western United States, emptying into the Gulf of California.Rivers are listed upstream by the point they empty into the Colorado.
In 1870, upon completion of U.S. government surveys, Utah's ersatz Rio Virgen settlements acknowledged that they were in Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory (1865–1871; whose area comprised those parts of Arizona Territory north of "Roaring Rapids" on the Colorado River and west of 113° 20” west longitude), with Pah-Ute County's seat at ...