All Roads Lead to Yuma Staff Writer
Where the Colorado River and the Sonoran Desert meet, lies the easiest crossing point on the Colorado. From the beginning, Yuma's geography shaped her destiny. The River – often called the Nile of the west - was a temperamental mistress and did not allow explorers and traders to cross her easily. Yuma provided the only practical crossing point – a fact that sealed Yuma's fate as a transportation and trade hub. The crossing was actively used for thousands of years by native Indians, Spanish explorers, and flatlanders trying to escape the dust bowl. Later on, during the Indian wars, it became a key supply point for the Army, and subsequently, for mining operations and settlements up and down the river. For millions of years the Colorado was a wild river, flowing unchecked over 1450 miles, from the Continental Divide at La Poudre Pass, Colorado, into the Gulf of California. Annual flooding through the river valleys and canyons has created some of the most majestic landscapes on the continent. The Imperial Sand Dunes, Grand Canyon, the Colorado Desert, Black Canyon, the Salton Sink and the Salton Sea are all products of this geographic evolution.
Geographically and historically, Yuma is the perfect home- base to explore hundreds of attractions and historical locations both locally and in outlying areas. These include the vast, exotic wilderness of the Imperial, Kofa and
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