Havasu / Havasupai Falls & Canyon, Grand Canyon Arizona

Havasu Canyon (Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona is home to the Havasupai nation and its famous falls. This massive area of cascading turquoise water has many levels, greenery and cliffs to be explored. Most visitors hike the many trails, stopping along route to take in the many spectacles that adorn the route.

The crystal clear waters that tumble down from the falls in Havasu Canyon have been well-loved for hundreds of years, even by the local Havasupai tribe. This amazing gorge is full of beautiful visions, a hikers dream, set deep in the heart of the Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona).

This beautiful paradise is full of calming pools, swaying willows and tall cottonwood trees that offer both a green break from the canyon colors and needed shade from the searing summer temperatures. Its red cliffs and crystal blue sky make it very easy to understand why the native Havasupai had occupied the land for some eight hundred years.

The falls are subject to the ebbing of the seasons; snow melts, rain falls and the river waters churn to combine into a flooding mess that frequently doubles them in size. These flood waters over flow the nearby creek beds, traveling some fifty miles before seeking a way out through the falls, which tumble down the cliff face.

The water then floods into the Colorado River, some ten miles downstream, to the native Supai Village. Even today the Havasupai consider the river waters to be sacred, and the falls being their guardian angels amidst the chaos of the changing seasons. They also believe that once the falls dry up, there time on this planet will end.