Kanab Creek

Kanab Creek Canyon in Kanab

The Kanab Creek is a 145 km long right-hand tributary of the Colorado River on the Colorado Plateau in the southwestern United States. It rises in Kane County, Utah south of the watershed to the Great Basin. He pursued throughout a southerly direction, near Kanab, Utah, and to Arizona. From here it forms the border between the Mohave County and the Coconino County and Fredonia happened. He then washes off a side canyon of the Grand Canyon and flows in Grand Canyon National Park in the Colorado River.

The source and the course in Utah are only slightly west of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, in Arizona the Kanab Creek flows through the Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation of the Paiute Indians and in 1984, Kanab Creek Wilderness, a conservation area by the type of Wilderness Areas, the strictest class of protected natural areas in the United States.

The valley of the Kanab Creek was sparsely populated by early Native American cultures of the Basketmaker and Anasazi ruins of their settlements and artifacts are found along the whole course.