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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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There’s also a restaurant, Black Canyon Grill, open daily for lunch in summer; open Fridays to Sundays for most of March, April, May, September and October; and closed November to February.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

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

From Green River Valley to the foot of Black Canyon something over 1000 would be a near estimate of the total number of rapids.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

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