Continuing with our summer theme of lighter fare, see here for the DP’s photo montage of the Yampa River as it flows through Dinosaur National Monument near the Colorado-Utah border. With snow-fed headwaters on the Continental Divide and passing by Steamboat Springs, the Yampa is one of just a few free-flowing rivers in the American west. That means no dams.
According to Wikipedia:
The Yampa’s warm, silty waters are an ideal spawning ground for native fish such as the Colorado pikeminnow and humpback chub. These have largely disappeared from dammed waterways in other parts of the Colorado River system.
Teaser below. Click the link above to see more spectacular scenery.
All this scenic beauty and great fishing too.
Oh, and did I mention? There’s white water rafting.
Though on the stretch pictured above, the water’s more brown than white.
Who could ask for anything more?
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