Vasey's Paradise

Vasey’s Paradise is a small oasis near the bottom of Grand Canyon National Park along the Colorado River, where groundwater emerging from upper cliff faces creates several waterfalls and sustains dense vegetation in an otherwise semi-desert landscape. Reachable only from the river, it stands out as an unusual pocket of water and plant life within the arid canyon. Its importance extends beyond scenery because it is a highly sensitive habitat and one of only two known natural homes of the Kanab ambersnail, a federally listed critically endangered land snail, making it an important protected ecological refuge.

Bitter Springs, Arizona · United States