#Colorado River

Source: Atlas Obscura In order to extract potassium chloride, also known as potash, from the desert landscapes of Utah, Intrepid Potash, Inc. uses a series of evaporation pools whose dazzlingly blue waters lie in stark contrast to the red desert surrounding them. Top Places in Utah … Click

Source: Atlas Obscura For over 1,000 years, travelers have used El Camino del Diablo to cross the harsh Sonoran Desert between settlements in what is now the state of Sonora in Mexico and the Colorado River in what is now Yuma, Arizona. Known as both El Camino del Diablo and El Camino del

Source: Good News Network 100 years ago today, the Grand Canyon was proclaimed a National Park by the US Congress. The steep-sided mile-deep canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona was first visited in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt who became a major proponent of its preservation.

Author: Lindsay Fendt / Source: Atlas Obscura There’s an old saying in the West: Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. In Colorado, home to more breweries than almost any other state, it’s probably more accurate to say that beer is for drinking. And although brewers haven’t yet

Source: Atlas Obscura For much of the history of the United States, crossing the Colorado River proved a near insurmountable challenge. Impassable canyon cliffs lined the river for hundreds of miles, and in places where one was able to get down to the river’s shore there were usually formidable