Cataract is a geologist's paradise. You can see 300 million years of rock history in one glance. The river has sliced through the rock over ions of time and left it totally exposed for all to see. Wildlife is abundant here, though it takes an observant eye to see it. Because of its many climatic environments, an extraordinary diversity of plants and animals live here.
Plants range from water storing cacti to fragile wildflowers.
This area hosts the largest herd of Desert Big Horn Sheep in the west. In the heat of the day you'll see eagles and hawks float along the canyon walls on the thermal airstreams. Early morning and evening there's deer, muskrat, coyote and great blue heron moving along the river's edge. Too warm for trout, the Colorado River supports the endangered Colorado Squawfish and the Humpback Chub. Weather is usually warm and sunny and very user friendly.