As I was walking,

that Ribbino Highway,

I saw above me,

Endless Skyway I saw below me in the Golden Valley.

This land was made for you and me. Be. If there's one place in our travels that has seemed nearly a hidden gem, a place where hardly anyone goes yet is full of incredible beauty. It's the

confluence of the northern tip of the Grand Canyon National Park where miles

of the Colorado River are protected before they enter the

canyon and the southern tip of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

It's a serene place called Lee's Ferry, where the Colorado gently winds through vermilion cliffs.

Rhafters hit the first rapid here to begin the 88 mile journey to Phantom Ranch, the historic

camping oasis nestled nearly a mile below the rim of the Grand Canyon.

Wild horses roam the hills and can be spotted frolicing in the riverbed.

But alongside this glorious beauty of the red rock set against the dark river and blue skies,

long before it was the launching point for Grand Canyon rafters.

This historic place was the gateway to Arizona.

It's the only place along the river for 700 miles that the riverbanks are directly accessible by land,

making it an ideal crossing point.

And today, the only place where you can get down into the deep cuts of the

Colorado without hiking in. On this episode of America's National Parks, Lee's

Ferry, part of the Glen Canyon National Reservoir. National You're going to do. Franciscans were the first Europeans to view the future Lease Ferry in October 1776,

though the first human inhabitants were the ancestral Pueblones, whose history in the area dates back to at least 1125 AD.

The area's history is a river crossing really began when Mormon Explorer and missionary Jacob Hamlin crossed the river for the first time in 1858.

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