Three Rivers In One / The Grand, The Green and The Colorado

Prior to 1921 the Colorado River didn’t exist until the Grand and Green Rivers converged in what is now Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Here in this image from Lee’s Ferry, AZ there’s red, green, and blue waters. The made me think of these three traditional mighty rivers of the American West. Before the dams the foreground color(ado) was how the Colorado got it’s name. Just upstream of where I made the photograph is the Paria River spills into the Colorado, the blue and green water are the color of the water released from Glen Canyon Dam which are also much colder than the traditional Colorado.