Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Stunning desert scenery set against the deep blue water of Lake Mohave is the image that greets visitors to Katherine Landing. Water sports are the main attraction for many here with world class boating, wake boarding, water skiing, beaches, kayaking, scuba diving and largemouth, smallmouth and striper fishing.
A full service destination located inside the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Katherine Landing at Lake Mohave Marina offers guests an array of boat and water sports rentals, lodging, camping, dining, fully stocked marina store, fuel dock and boat repairs. Discover for yourself why guests come from all over the world to experience this water sports paradise in the Arizona desert.
Both narrow and shallow compared to Lake Mead, Lake Mohave lies between the Black Mountains to the east in northwestern Arizona, and the Eldorado and Newberry Mountains to the west in southern Nevada. Most of the lake's length lies within the steep, narrow walls of Black, Eldorado, Painted, and Pyramid canyons. The northern section of the reservoir is constrained by the steep rock walls of Black Canyon for a length of 22 miles and is narrower than 300 ft in places. This portion of the reservoir is primarily riverine. South of Black Canyon, Lake Mohave gradually widens to nearly four miles in Cottonwood Basin. The transition between river and true reservoir conditions occurs in Eldorado Canyon, between Black Canyon and Cottonwood Basin.
From its genesis on the Continental Divide in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park, the river originally known as the Grand grows from a cold mountain trout stream into a classic Western waterway slicing through jagged gorges between sweeping, pastoral ranchlands on the upper leg of a 1,450-mile journey.
Its stature continues to swell as it carves through some of the planet’s most iconic landscapes—desert canyons, buttes, and mesas—before being bottled up and sucked dry by agriculture and municipal demand. Its once-mighty flow ends, in fact, several miles shy of the Gulf of California in Mexico.
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Stunning desert scenery set against the deep blue water of Lake Mohave is the image that greets visitors to Katherine Landing. Water sports are the main attraction for many here with world class boating, wake boarding, water skiing, beaches, kayaking, scuba diving and largemouth, smallmouth and striper fishing.
A full service destination located inside the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Katherine Landing at Lake Mohave Marina offers guests an array of boat and water sports rentals, lodging, camping, dining, fully stocked marina store, fuel dock and boat repairs. Discover for yourself why guests come from all over the world to experience this water sports paradise in the Arizona desert.
Both narrow and shallow compared to Lake Mead, Lake Mohave lies between the Black Mountains to the east in northwestern Arizona, and the Eldorado and Newberry Mountains to the west in southern Nevada. Most of the lake's length lies within the steep, narrow walls of Black, Eldorado, Painted, and Pyramid canyons. The northern section of the reservoir is constrained by the steep rock walls of Black Canyon for a length of 22 miles and is narrower than 300 ft in places. This portion of the reservoir is primarily riverine. South of Black Canyon, Lake Mohave gradually widens to nearly four miles in Cottonwood Basin. The transition between river and true reservoir conditions occurs in Eldorado Canyon, between Black Canyon and Cottonwood Basin.
From its genesis on the Continental Divide in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park, the river originally known as the Grand grows from a cold mountain trout stream into a classic Western waterway slicing through jagged gorges between sweeping, pastoral ranchlands on the upper leg of a 1,450-mile journey.
Its stature continues to swell as it carves through some of the planet’s most iconic landscapes—desert canyons, buttes, and mesas—before being bottled up and sucked dry by agriculture and municipal demand. Its once-mighty flow ends, in fact, several miles shy of the Gulf of California in Mexico.
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![Pecos River Gorge Bridge
Completed in April 1957, the Pecos River Highway Bridge spans the Pecos River Canyon at the junction of U.S. Highway 90 and the Pecos River. The height above the river varies with the level of the Amistad Reservoir but the bridge is approximately 273 feet above the water level.
The highest highway bridge in Texas, it is actually the fourth bridge built by the Texas Highway Department to cross the lower Pecos River Canyon. Earlier bridges were washed away in the floods of 1923, 1954 and 1955. Consisting of two central piers with one 1040 deck truss unit, one concrete slab span and one 240-foot continuous plate girder span, the present bridge is 1,310 feet long and carries approximately 1000 vehicles per day.
The Pecos River, in New Mexico and Texas, is yet another river at risk of drying up soon. It runs for around 926 miles and runs from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico into the eastern part of the state of Texas before emptying into the Rio Grande just below the Hwy 90 bridge west of Del Rio.
The Pecos River (Spanish: Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico near Santa Fe and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, NM, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet. The river flows for 926 miles before reaching the Rio Grande near Del Rio.
The name Pecos derives from the Keresan (Native American language) term for the Pecos Pueblo, [pæyokona]. The river was also historically referred to as the Río Natagés for the Mescalero people.
The river played a large role in the exploration of Texas by the Spanish.
On June 6, 1990, 20.5 miles of the Pecos River from its headwaters to the townsite of Tererro received National Wild and Scenic River designation.
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