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The St. Joseph Bridge a.k.a. the Lost Pratt Pony Truss Bridge built in 1912 over the Little Colorado River in Joseph City, Arizona. The Little Colorado River, also known as the Flax River, and the first Rio Chiquito, is depicted and labelled as such on a map compiled by Lt. Joseph C. Ives and published in the official volumes of those expeditions.
Marble Canyon is the site of one of the last great proposed dam projects on the Colorado, the Marble Canyon Dam. Proposed and investigated in the early 1950s by the United States Bureau of Reclamation , [ 1 ] the proposal met substantial opposition, notably from the Sierra Club , when a revived proposal was considered by the state of Arizona as ...
There are three popular campsites at Nankoweap for river trips. A steep trail up a nearby talus slope leads to Ancestral Puebloan granaries. This is also where the Nankoweap Trail reaches the river. Mile 56.3 – Kwagunt Rapid (5) Mile 60.1 – 60 Mile Rapid (4) Mile 61.7 – Little Colorado River Confluence. Mile 65.1 – Carbon Creek
The trail begins at the end of the Tanner Trail, at the confluence of Tanner Creek and the Colorado River. This confluence created the Unkar Creek Rapids. From here the trail follows the Colorado north (upstream) to its confluence with the Little Colorado River. The trail is considered primitive, and some route finding is required.
The Colorado River flows through Cataract Canyon below its confluence with the Green River. The Island in the Sky district is a broad and level mesa in the northern section of the park, between the Colorado and Green rivers. The district has many viewpoints overlooking the White Rim, a sandstone bench 1,200 feet (370 m) below the Island, and ...
The Gila River Basin below the confluence with the Salt River Basin to the confluence with the Colorado River. Arizona: 14,800 sq mi (38,000 km 2) HUC1507: 1508 Sonora subregion: The drainage that originates within the United States east of the Colorado River Basin and ultimately discharges into the Gulf of California. Arizona and New Mexico.
Glen Canyon is a natural canyon carved by a 169.6-mile (272.9 km) length of the Colorado River, mostly in southeastern and south-central Utah, in the United States. Glen Canyon starts where Narrow Canyon ends, at the confluence of the Colorado River and the Dirty Devil River.
Dead Horse Point State Park is a state park in San Juan County, Utah in the United States, featuring a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River and Canyonlands National Park. [4] The park opened to the public in 1959 and covers 5,362 acres (2,170 ha) of high desert at an altitude of 5,900 feet (1,800 m).