The Little Colorado River's turquoise blue waters and the place where they comingle with the larger Colorado on its path through the Grand Canyon create a place that calls people to explore one of the Southwest's most intriguing regions.
The Confluence.
The area is held sacred by several Indigenous peoples in the region, including the Hopi, Navajo and Zuni peoples. It's also the stronghold of the humpback chub, a minnow species that has survived in the Colorado River Basin's warm-water canyons for about 3.5 million years, but whose existence is threatened by dams and invasive species.
But the Confluence is only the end of the Little Colorado and its story...