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Black Canyon

American  

noun

  1. a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.


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By the time we made it to Black Canyon of the Gunnison, we were pretty excited to see something other than the hoodoos and arches that we were starting to take for granted.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

The complex is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2022

Chaffin met Adam fly fishing in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2018

Black Canyon Stewardship Director Jeremy Puckett says conservation work is changing in the state and across the county, and “smaller land trusts are finding it more difficult to maintain sustainability.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2017

He traced its course to where it plunged into a chasm so deep and dangerous that he feared to follow it farther and named the gorge Black Canyon.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

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