Arizona Rivers
Open a river for its map, facts and the lakes on it.
Colorado River
The Colorado drops from the Rockies past Glenwood Springs, Grand Junction and Moab, carves the Grand Canyon, then runs along the Arizona-Nevada-California line past Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Needles and Yuma toward Mexico.
649 milesGila River
From the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico the river runs west past Safford, through San Carlos Lake, skirts the south side of metro Phoenix, and crosses the desert past Gila Bend to the Colorado at Yuma.
about 200 milesSalt River
The Salt runs west out of Arizona's White Mountains through a chain of reservoirs, Roosevelt, Apache, Canyon and Saguaro lakes, then passes Mesa, Tempe and Phoenix before meeting the Gila.
about 170 milesVerde River
Rising below Sullivan Lake in central Arizona, the Verde flows through the Verde Valley past Clarkdale, Cottonwood and Camp Verde, then south through Horseshoe and Bartlett lakes to the Salt River.
about 338 milesLittle Colorado River
Beginning near Greer in the White Mountains, the Little Colorado runs north past Springerville, St. Johns, Holbrook, Joseph City and Cameron across high desert before entering the Colorado deep in the Grand Canyon.
140 milesSan Pedro River
Starting just south of the border in Sonora, the San Pedro flows north through southeast Arizona past St. David, Redington and Dudleyville to the Gila; it is described as the Southwest's last major undammed desert river.
about 184 milesSanta Cruz River
The Santa Cruz loops south into Sonora and back north past Nogales, Tubac, Green Valley and Tucson, then continues northwest past Marana and Picacho Peak to the Gila.
46 milesBill Williams River
A short western Arizona river that starts below Alamo Lake and runs west through desert canyon country to the Colorado River arm of Lake Havasu, just above Parker Dam.
114 milesBlack River
A mountain river of east-central Arizona, the Black flows west from near Alpine through the White Mountains until it meets the White River near Fort Apache, where the two form the Salt.
about 113 milesHassayampa River
The Hassayampa drains south from the mountains below Prescott past Wickenburg and across the desert west of Phoenix to the Gila near the community of Hassayampa.