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Extract from the Lees Ferry Travel Guides:
The direct route to the North Rim, now US-89A, crosses the Colorado at last over the single arch of
Navajo Bridge
, almost five hundred feet above the river. There are in fact two Navajo Bridges, the 1929 original, now reserved for pedestrians, having been supplanted by a wider facsimile in 1995. Until the first was built, a ferry service operated at
LEES FERRY
, six miles north. This was established in 1872, at the instigation of the Mormon Church, by John D. Lee, at the only spot within hundreds of miles to offer easy access to the banks of the river on both sides. The Colorado, however, could still be a raging torre...
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