double clickMNA Rapid - A Rapid Named After a Museum

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MNA Rapid

Mile 27 - MNA Rapid

Scientists on a research river trip were the first to encounter this rapid after a rockfall deposited large boulders into the river here in March of 1974. They named the rapid MNA after the Museum of Northern Arizona.

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