Virgin River

Virgin River southwest of Mesquite

Catchment and tributaries of the Virgin River

North Fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park

Course

His two arms source East Fork Virgin (80 km) and North Fork Virgin (64 km) originate in Kane County of southwestern Utah's watershed to the Great Basin. The source arms flow through still separate Zion National Park and flows south thereof in Springdale in Washington County together. There they form the Virgin River.

The river cuts across the south-west in the Arizona Strip through the northwest part of Arizona, the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness, and later the Virgin Mountains. In Mesquite Nevada, the river reaches. His former underflow was dammed to 50 km and forms the northern arm of Lake Mead. Today it flows about 64 kilometers east of Las Vegas in the reservoir.

The overflow was reported in 2009 as the first river in Utah as a National Wild and Scenic River. This provides protection from building connected. Since the end of 2010 Zion National Park is coordinating a program for future conservation measures and the use of the recreational use. A report with possible management alternatives was presented in the summer of 2013, and in early 2014, the catchment area of ​​the Virgin Rivers chose the National Park Service, the park primarily from the viewpoint of the protection of natural resources to manage and allow tourist usages where they nature the not compromise.