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Lees Ferry is located in northern Arizona, at the point where the Paria River joins the Colorado from the north. Lying in an open valley directly downstream from Glen Canyon and shortly above Marble Canyon (the uppermost section of the Grand Canyon), it is the only place in more than 260 miles (420 km) where the Colorado is not hemmed in by sheer canyon walls.
Mile 219.6 – Trail Canyon (Ducky Eater) Rapid (2) Cross-river hydraulics can flip small inflatable kayaks here. Mile 220.7 – Granite Spring Rapid (2) Mile 223.7 – 224 Mile Rapid (3) Mile 225.9 – Diamond Creek Take-out/Put-in. This is the first location downriver from Lee's Ferry where a road reaches the Colorado River.
The unimpaired annual runoff [n 6] of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona is estimated at 14.7 million acre-feet (18.1 km 3), or an annualized discharge of 20,300 cu ft/s (570 m 3 /s), for the 1906–2023 period. [71]
Historically a ford used by Native Americans, explorers and settlers, Lee's Ferry serves as the dividing point between the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basins, which were each allocated one-half of the Colorado River flow in the Colorado River Compact of 1922. Navajo Bridges over Marble Canyon, just downstream of Lee's Ferry
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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.
Prior to completion of the first Navajo Bridge, one of the only Colorado River crossings between Arizona and Utah was located about 5 miles (8.0 km) upstream from the bridge site, at the mouth of Glen Canyon where Lees Ferry service had operated since 1873. The ferry site had been chosen as the only relatively easy access to the river for both ...
The beginnings of the use of steamboats on the Colorado River came as the result of the founding of Fort Yuma during the Yuma War.Supplies had to be shipped over long distance from San Francisco to San Diego then overland through the Peninsular Ranges via Warner Pass to Depot Vallecito then 113 miles (182 km) across the arid Colorado Desert to the fort.