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The Dirty Devil River near Twin Corral Box Canyon
The Dirty Devil River near Twin Corral Box Canyon

The Dirty Devil River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 80 mi (129 km) long, in south central Utah in the United States. Download high resolution version (500x750, 235 KB)The Dirty Devil River near Twin Corral Box Canyon. ... Download high resolution version (500x750, 235 KB)The Dirty Devil River near Twin Corral Box Canyon. ... Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ...


It is formed in Wayne County near Hanksville from the confluence of the Fremont River and Muddy Creek. It flows SSE through a 2000 foot (600 m) deep canyon in Wayne and Garfield counties. In its lower 20 mi (32 km) it enters Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and flows into Lake Powell on the Colorado from the north. Wayne County is a county located in the state of Utah. ... Hanksville is a city in eastern Wayne County, Utah located at the junction of Utah State Route 24 and Utah State Route 95. ... The Fremont River in Utah flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir near Fishlake southwest through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the Dirty Devil River, a tributary of the Colorado River. ... The Chute of Muddy Creek, Utah Muddy Creek is a stream draining portions of Emery and Wayne Counties in central Utah, in the western United States. ... Garfield County is a county located in the state of Utah. ... Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) is a recreation and conservation unit of the National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres (5,076 km²) of mostly desert. ... Lake Powell is a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. ...


The canyon of the river is particularly isolated and is seldom visited compared to other natural areas in the region. The river was named during the 1869 Colorado River expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The outlaw Butch Cassidy used tributary canyons of the Dirty Devil as a hideout in the 1890s. 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... First camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyoming, 1871 The Powell Geographic Expedition was a groundbreaking 19th century U.S. exploratory expedition of the American West, led by John Wesley Powell in 1869, that provided the first-even thorough investigation of the Green and... John Wesley Powell, second Director of the USGS. Served from 1881-1894. ... Butch Cassidy poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901 Butch Cassidy (13 April 1866 - c. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...


See also

This is a list of rivers in the state of Utah in the United States: Listed by watershed Colorado River - Gulf of California Green River Strawberry River White River Dolores River Hatch River Price River San Rafael River Dirty Devil River Fremont River Muddy Creek Escalante River San Juan River...

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Colorado River system
Dams and aqueducts (see US Bureau of Reclamation)

Shadow Mountain Dam | Granby Dam | Glen Canyon Dam | Hoover Dam | Davis Dam | Parker Dam | Palo Verde Diversion Dam | Imperial Dam | Laguna Dam | Morelos Dam | Colorado River Aqueduct | San Diego Aqueduct | Central Arizona Project Aqueduct | All-American Canal | Coachella Canal | Redwall Dam Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1024, 146 KB) Summary My picture from the Hoover Dam down the Colorado River taken on August 31, 2001. ... The Colorado River from the bottom of Marble Canyon, in the Upper Grand Canyon Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River from Laughlin The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Pont du Gard, France, a Roman aqueduct built circa 19 BC. It is one of Frances top tourist attractions and a World Heritage Site. ... The United States Bureau of Reclamation (Formerly the United States Reclamation Service) is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees water development projects in the western United States. ... The Shadow Mountain Dam is a Zoned Earthfill Dam on the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. ... The Granby Dam is an earthfill dam that dams the Colorado River 5. ... Glen Canyon Dam on 19 June 2005. ... Hoover Dam Hoover Dam ( ), also known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. ... The Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River. ... Parker Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam which spans the Colorado river, at a point 155 miles downstream of Hoover Dam. ... A picture of Imperial Dam The Imperial Dam is a dam near Yuma, Arizona (USA), built in the 1930s. ... The Laguna Diversion Dam is an earthfill dam 13 miles Northeast of Yuma, Arizona creating the Laguna Reservior along the Colorado River. ... The Morelos Dam is the final dam on the Colorado River. ... Colorado River Aqueduct The Colorado River Aqueduct is a 242-mi (392 km) water conveyance in southern California in the United States. ... The Central Arizona Project Aqueduct (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. ... The All-American Canal brings Colorado River water to the Imperial Valley in California. ...

Natural features
Colorado River | Rocky Mountains | Colorado River Basin | Grand Lake | Sonoran desert | Mojave desert | Imperial Valley | Colorado Plateau | Grand Canyon | Glen Canyon | Marble Canyon | New River | Paria Canyon | Gulf of California/Sea of Cortez | Salton Sea
Tributaries
Dirty Devil River | Dolores River | Escalante River | Gila River | Green River | Gunnison River | Kanab River | Little Colorado River | Paria River | San Juan River | Virgin River
Major reservoirs

Fontenelle Reservoir | Flaming Gorge Reservoir | Taylor Park Reservoir | Navajo Reservoir| Lake Powell | Lake Mead | Lake Mohave | Lake Havasu Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. ... Confectionary Company, see Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. ... Grand Lake is a natural lake, one of the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. ... Sonoran Desert wildlife Mountains in the Sonoran Desert 3D photograph of Saguaro National Park at dusk. ... Looking across from Emigrant Pass towards the Kingston Range in the eastern Mojave. ... The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea, as seen from the Space shuttle. ... The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. ... , ) The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. ... Glen Canyon, in southeastern and south central Utah and northwestern Arizona within the Vermilion Cliffs area, was carved by two rivers, the Colorado River and the San Juan River. ... Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon from Glen Canyon Dam to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon. ... The New River is a river that runs from Mexicali, Baja California, in Mexico into the United States through Calexico, California. ... A backpacker at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. ... The Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or, much less frequently, Golfo de California) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. ... The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake, located in the Colorado Desert in Southern California, north of the Imperial Valley. ... Look up tributary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Dolores River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Dolores River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 250 mi (402 km) long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah. ... The Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 90 mi (145 km) long, in southern Utah. ... The Gila River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the United States The Gila River (Oodham [Pima]: Hila Akimel) is a tributary of the Colorado River, 630 mile (1,014 km) long, in the southwestern United States. ... The Green River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States. ... The Gunnison River, a tributary of the Colorado River, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Gunnison River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 180 mi (290 km) long, in the U.S. state of Colorado. ... The Kanab River is one of the many tributaries of the Grand Canyon. ... The Little Colorado River is shown highlighted on a map of the United States The Little Colorado River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 315 mi (507 km) long, in the U.S. state of Arizona. ... A backpacker at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. ... Categories: Stub | Colorado rivers | Utah rivers ... The Virgin River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the southwestern United States The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River, 200 mi (322 km) long, in the southwestern United States. ... Fontenelle Reservoir is a reservoir located in southwest Wyoming. ... Flaming Gorge Reservoir lies 43 miles (69 km) East of Vernal, Utah on the Green River (Utah). ... The Taylor Park Reservoir is a body of water created by the Taylor Park Dam, which dams the Taylor River of Colorado. ... The Navajo Reservoir is a reservoir located in the northwest area of New Mexico and the southwest area of Colorado, in the United States. ... Lake Powell is a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. ... Panoramic view of Lake Mead. ... Lake Mohave Lake Mohave is a lake formed by Davis Dam on the Colorado River, which defines the border between Nevada and Arizona in the United States. ... Lake Havasu is the reservoir behind Parker Dam on the Colorado river. ...

Dependent states
Arizona | California | Colorado | Nevada | New Mexico | Utah (See: Colorado River Compact)
Designated areas
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area | Lake Mead National Recreation Area

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Dirty Devil River - UT (678 words)
The river made a quick bend to the left but the image of what might lie around the corner led to my desire to float the river.
The river was very braided and the ducky's did very well despite the water being mostly calf deep.
The bottom of the Dirty Devil is made up mostly of tightly compacted sand so walking in it is pleasant.
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