Mille Crag Bend

Mille Crag Bend is a river access point on the Colorado River, serving the Cataract Canyon section.

Coordinates

37.865444°N 110.281944°W

The downstream end of Cataract Canyon and the head of Narrow Canyon, at river mile 176.5. This is a canyon boundary, not an access point: there is no road, no ramp, and no way on or off the river here. It is listed because it is where the whitewater section actually ends — 40 miles below the Confluence and 7.5 miles above the North Wash take-out — and because river maps and boaters use the bend as the landmark for that transition. The river swings through a long bend around a field of standing towers and crags; below it the current dies, the walls pinch in, and the last miles to the take-out are flatwater.

Facilities

• None — roadless canyon boundary, no river access