Westwater Canyon is a canyon located on the Colorado River in Eastern Utah between the Utah/Colorado state line and Cisco, Utah. The inner gorge of the canyon is made up of black Precambrian rock and contains class III and IV rapids which are sought after by whitewater enthusiasts. The most notable rapid, called "Skull", is the most significant.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees a permitting system for whitewater travelers for this section of the Colorado River, and boaters must follow special rules and regulations. Many boaters pack camping equipment in on rafts and make the 17-mile (27 km) trip from Westwater ranger station to Cisco landing over 1–2 days.
Westwater Canyon runs through a wilderness study area and has been proposed for designation as a wild and scenic river along with Ruby Canyon just upstream.
The Westwater Ranger Station put-in to the Rose Ranch takeout is a 17-mile journey. Most whitewater is compacted in the Marble gorge where rescue of swimmers and recovery of capsized vessels is limited by vertical canyon walls.
109°13′40″W / 38.97222°N 109.22778°W / 38.97222; -109.22778 WestwaterCanyon is a canyon located on the Colorado River in Eastern Utah between the Utah/Colorado...
The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Öngtupqa, Yavapai: Wi:kaʼi:la, Navajo: Bidááʼ Haʼaztʼiʼ Tsékooh, Southern Paiute language: Paxa’uipi, Spanish: Gran Cañón or Gran...
to as a separate formation, chiefly within the Black Hills region. WestwaterCanyon Member (AZ, CO, NM, UT): consists of sandstone interbedded with mudstone...
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...
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
inscription on a wall of Utah's WestwaterCanyon during this time. Likely ascending a trapper's trail from the canyon's mouth on the Colorado River, Robidoux...
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (shortened to Glen Canyon NRA or GCNRA) is a national recreation area and conservation unit of the United States...
Westwater may refer to: Westwater, Utah, a small Navajo Nation-owned community in San Juan County WestwaterCanyon on the Colorado River in Eastern Utah...
Railroad) between Mack, Colorado and Westwater, Utah. Amtrak's California Zephyr follows this route through Ruby Canyon between Grand Junction, Colorado,...
Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park. The park's central...
River Gorge, Arizona and Utah Waimea Canyon, Hawaii Walnut Canyon, Arizona WestwaterCanyon, Utah Wind River Canyon, Wyoming Winner Creek Gorge, Alaska...
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page...
Colorado enters the high desert canyon country of the Colorado Plateau, flowing swiftly southwest through WestwaterCanyon. Near Dewey it picks up the Dolores...
Glenwood Canyon is a rugged scenic 12.5 mi (20 km) canyon in western Colorado in the United States. Its walls climb as high as 1,300 feet (400 m) above...
The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado River at the state...
progressively deeper gorges of bare rock, beginning with Ruby Canyon and then WestwaterCanyon as it enters Utah, now once again heading southwest. Farther...
Refuge extends southeastward up the riparian zone of the Bill Williams River canyon from the southeastern end of the reservoir and dam.[citation needed] Lake...
Valley, looping around through WestwaterCanyon to the confluence with the Dolores in eastern Utah and leaving Unaweep Canyon as a huge dry gap across the...
Colorado Plateau lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Much of the Plateau's landscape is related to the Grand Canyon in both appearance and geologic...
Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Goblin Valley State Park, Ruby Canyon, and WestwaterCanyon. The designation lists several side roads branching from I-70...
National Park and Parunaweap Canyon, with the North Fork Virgin River, that flows from Navajo Lake through Zion Canyon in Zion National Park. The river...
from 1924 to 1936, during the planning and construction of the Boulder Canyon Project that created the dam and lake. Lloyd Joseph Hudlow, an engineer...
of Moab. The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into numerous canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective...
event was repeated from 1963 to 1981 as Lake Powell filled behind the Glen Canyon Dam. With these reservoirs now filled, the dams are used to regulate flow...
and arid region northwest of the Colorado, flowing through roadless slot canyons along part of its course. It is formed in southern Utah, in southwestern...
Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon in northern Arizona from Lee's Ferry to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which...
notable features on the Colorado River through Marble Canyon and Grand Canyon below Glen Canyon Dam, in order of their position downstream of Lee's Ferry...
This is a partial list of canyons in the U.S. state of Utah along with any rivers, roads, and other features (such as rail lines) that pass through them...
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