Colorado River Mileage Log

This is a consolidation of notes from various trips.

Key:

Landmark

Rapid

Camp

River Miles	Side	Feature	Rapid Rating	'04 Camp	Notes	Joe
0	R	Lee's Ferry Boat Ramp		0
4.2		Navajo Bridges
7.9		Badger Camp				1
7.9		Badger Creek	5
17.0		House Rock!	7
18.2	L	18 Mile Ledges Camp		1
20.5	R	North Canyon			Good Camp and nice hike back to pool and slide
29.2		Shinumo Wash Camp			Silver Grotto Hike - nice but difficult, exposed climbing
31.6		South Canyon		2-3	Great camp, great archeology site
31.9	R	Vasey's Paradise			Water
33.1	L	Redwall Cavern
34.8		Nautiloid Canyon			Fossil Hike
40.95	R	Lower Buck Farm		4	Buck Farm Hike
47.1		Saddle Canyon			Good day hike. Steep uphill, then down into grassy area with year round stream.
50.0	R	Dinosaur Camp			Looks like a good camp with a challenging hike. No water
52.8	R	Upper Nankoweap
	R	Nankoweap Granaries			Great creek hike, Granaries
53.1	R	Main Nankoweap		5-6
61.25	L	Little Colorado River
64.5	R	Carbon Creek			Good camp and loop hike to Lava Canyon, great geology
65.5	R				Great place to hang out, 800' fault line across river
67.8	R	68 Mile Camp			Better than Tanner but difficult to access in low water
68.3		Tanner		7	Easy access. Hike to draw, look for ruins and rock art on boulders
71.0	L	Cardenas			Start of hike to ruins and overlook of Unkar delta/rapid
72.4		Unkar	6
72.5	R	Unkar			Best archeology site in canyon. Stay right and look for takeout about 1/4 mile above rapid. You can see the takeout in the bank wall from upriver. It's just downstream of the elbow of the sharp left hand bend before the rapid. Climb the steps to the trail. There are brochures in the lock box. You don't want to miss this!
75.5		Nevills	6
76.6		Hance	8		Scout '04 20k CFS far right run
78.5		Sockdolager	7
81.1		Grapevine (Vishnu Creek) Camp		8	Get money, calling cards out
81.5		Grapevine	7
83.6		83 Mile	4
84.5	L	Above Zoroaster			Camp here instead of Cremation if doing exchange at Phantom
84.7		Zoroaster	5
87.0	L	Cremation			Worst camps on river
87.7		Bright Angel	3
87.4		Kaibab Suspension Bridge
87.5	R	Phantom Ranch Boat Beach
87.7		Silver Suspension Bridge
90.2		Horn	8
91.5	R	Trinity			Almost better than Granite
93.4	L	Granite		9	Monument Creek is a must hike. Can go all the way to the rim.
93.4		Granite	8		Scout, big waves, pictures
94.9		Hermit	8		Scout, big waves, pictures
98.2		Crystal	9
99.1		Tuna Creek	6
101.2		Sapphire	6
104.0		104 Mile (Emerald)	5
104.5		Ruby	5
106.0		Serpentine	7
107.6	L	Ross Wheeler
108.3		Lower Bass Camp		10-11
108.6		Shinumo Creek			Waterfall, Hike
112.1		Walthenberg	6
116.5		Elves Chasm
119.1		Blacktail Canyon Narrows			Conquistador Aisle
122.7		Forster Camp	5	12
122.7		Forster	5
124.8		Fossil Camp			Hike to Fossil Canyon
124.9		Fossil	5
130.0		Specter	6
130.5		Bedrock	7
131.7		Deubendorff	7
131.8		Stone Creek Camp		13	1/4 mile hike waterfall
133.7		Tapeats	5		Thunder River Hike
135.0		Granite Narrows	1
135.2	R	Christmas Tree Cave
136.2	R	Deer Creek Falls			Great Hike
137.1	L	Pancho's Kitchen		14
145.0		Kanab Canyon			Hike, Camp
147.9	L	Matkatamiba Canyon			Can't Miss
149.7		Upset	6
151.5		Ledges		15	Landmark Camp
156.7	L	Havasu Canyon			Maybe do something other than Havasu?
166.5	L	Upper National Camp		16-17	Hike
168.0		Fern Glen Camp/Canyon			Hike
171.0		Stairway Camp/Canyon			Hike
178.0		Vulcan's Anvil
178.9		Above Lava Camp		18
179.2		Lava Falls	9		Scout, big waves, pictures
179.5		Lower Lava	4
187.5		Whitmore Trail			Trail and pictographs
202.0		Lower 202 Mile		19
205.2		205 Mile Canyon	6		Unique hike, heart of a fault system, geology
205.2		205 Mile (Kolb)	6
209.0		209 Mile	5
212.9	L	Pumpkin Springs			Camp / Lunch
215.6		Three Springs Canyon			Water, hike, shade, no camping
219.7		Upper 220 Mile Camp			Camp - Shade
221.9	L	222 Mile		20	Camp - Hot No Shade
223.4		224 Mile	3
225.7	L	Diamond Creek Take Out

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