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Riverfront Development

Each year more than 250,000 people visit Yuma to experience the sights, sounds, tastes, and heritage of this very unique and historic place.





Environmental Rehabilitation
For decades, the Yuma community has sought to improve a five-mile stretch of the Colorado River.

Bounded by levees for flood control, choked by non-native vegetation, a haven for illegal activity and the homeless, and starved of an adequate water supply, this 1400 acre area became a "forgotten land": a parched patch of river bottom where once cottonwoods and willows grew, where the Quechan Indian tribal members once hunted and fished, and where hundreds of birds nested. Read more about the East Wetlands and West Wetlands projects going on now.
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The Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area will conserve, enhance, and interpret the natural and cultural resources of the community through collaboration and partnerships. Read more about the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Project >>

 Heritage Festivals 

Our Annual Festivals:

13th Annual Christmas Crafts Festival
November 30th,December 1st & 2nd, 2007 		"Holiday Memories on Parade"
December 7, 2007
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Old Town Jubilee 2008
January 4th, 5th & 6th, 2008 		Yuma Lettuce Days 2008
January 25th, 26th, & 27st, 2008
Yuma Crossing River Daze 2008
February 15th, 16th, & 17th 2008 		March Breezes On Main
March 14th, 15th & 16th, 2008

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   The Impact of the Great Dams

As this animation of Laguna Dam shows, the Colorado River once carried an immense quantity of water. Today there are no less than seven dams on the main channel of the Colorado River between Lake Mead and the Yuma Crossing causing a dramatic impact on the River and on the environment!


 The Colorado River 
The major stories of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area explain the use of the Colorado, the transformation of the lands through which it flows, the environmental degradation which has accompanied the use of the water and the hopeful ecological rehabilitation efforts at the East and West Wetlands areas. Read more about the current state of the Colorado River.

 The History of the Yuma Crossing 
The history of the Yuma Crossing began at the formation of two massive granite outcroppings on the Colorado River. Thousands of years ago, prehistoric tribes, searching for a way across the mighty river, first came upon this natural crossing. Read more about the history of the Yuma Crossing.

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