Where Does the Colorado River Start and End

[Glenn MacGrady]

"But the constant demand means the river also faces aridification and overconsumption. Here’s everything you need to know about the river many call the 'lifeline of the Southwest.'”

Where does the Colorado River start? Mapping the stream from the headwaters to the basins.

The Colorado River winds through seven states and two nations, including 277 miles through the Grand Canyon. Here's where the river starts and ends.

www.usatoday.com

 

[clemency]

National Geographic's Pete McBride has a few short films about the Colorado River. Chasing Water is a source-to-sea effort if I remember right, then there's two about the Grand Canyon (Martin's Boat and Into the Canyon), and one, maybe the most compelling, about the river actually making it to the sea (which it ordinarily doesn't -- Delta Dawn). All very well done and worth a watch.

MOTION – Pete McBride | National Geographic filmmaker and photographer

petemcbride.com

 

[ppine]

Starts in the Rockies in Colorado and ends at the Gulf of California.
I liked Colin Fletcher's book "River" where starts at the headwaters of the Green River in the Wind River Mtns in Wyo and ends up at the salt water in Mexico. I have read it twice.