Havasupai Tribe

Illustrated Havasu Creek joining a larger river while a researcher notes sediment and a host reads separate park and tribal rule cards

Havasu Creek: Floods, Tribal Jurisdiction and a Camping Closure

Havasu Creek is tribal homeland, a flood-prone tributary and a monitored river system. The park’s lower-creek camping rule is not a blanket visitation ban.

Cutaway illustration of a breccia pipe uranium mine shaft cutting through Grand Canyon rock layers into a perched aquifer, with pumps and a haul truck at the surface

Uranium mining around the Grand Canyon: mines, monument, and 2026

How uranium in Grand Canyon breccia pipes led to a 2012 mining withdrawal, a 2023 tribal-backed national monument, and Pinyon Plain Mine, still pumping and mining ore in 2026.