slgwv's photos with the keyword: Dolores River

Where it is crossed by Colorado State Route 141. Looking upstream (south).

Where it crosses Colorado State Route 141. Looking downstream (north). (The inset shows an upstream view.) The river ultimately joins the Colorado about 10 miles upstream from Moab, Utah. The river's name is significantly shortened from the Spanish original, "El Río de Nuestra Señora de Dolores", River of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Colorado, south of Paradox Valley. Looking upstream (south). The petroglyphs we were trying to reach are supposed to be below those cliffs in the distance, but we were out of time--and the old Jeep trail did not prove to be practical for bicycles! In fact, it's pretty much washed out thru here, even tho Google still shows it as a "road." The partly bare shrubs along the river, to the left, are tamarisk ( Tamarix spp.), which are showing the effects of the tamarisk beetle, imported to control them!

On the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado. It's named for the abandoned logging town of McPhee, whose site was drowned by the reservoir. The dam forming the reservoir was constructed in the early 1980s, surprisingly late, after the heyday of dam-building in the US west. Another interesting tidbit is that they also had to build a dike, the Great Cut Dike, across a low saddle to keep from diverting the Dolores River into the San Juan drainage! Looking southeasterly toward Mesa Verde.

Or arch. On the west side of the Dolores River roughly a mile and a half downstream from its confluence with the San Miguel. The feature is marked on the USGS Red Canyon 7.5' topo map, but is not named. Telephoto view across the river; map position is that of the arch. Colorado, USA. Update From an online source (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/horse-collar-arch) I've learned that this is called Horse Collar Arch.

Close-up down by the Dolores River. For detailed description and background see the caption on the adjacent photo or the album.

From the River Road, looking upstream to Paradox Valley. Colorado, USA.

Dolores River, Colorado, muddy with the monsoon rains. In places the water looked like chocolate milk! The shrub in the foreground is the native willow.

Colorado, USA. Looking upstream, just upstream from its confluence with the San Miguel River. This is the canyon the river follows from Paradox Valley. The river is muddy from the monsoon rains.

Looking northwest (downstream) from off Colorado State Route 141 (the highway visible on the ledge to the right) toward Gateway, CO. The Dolores rises in southwestern Colorado and flows generally northwesterly, joining the Colorado River in Utah upstream from Moab. It flows thru lots of red standstone country and spectacular canyons. The name is considerably shortened from the original Spanish: El Río de Nuestra Señora de Dolores, River of Our Lady of Sorrows.