Pipe Springs Reflections National Monument

"John D. Lee settled here in Dec. 1871 and established a ferry service thirteen months later..." proclaims the bronze plaque at Lee's Ferry. Although John Doyle Lee only lived here two years, his oar-driven ferry continued in operation until 1928 ... and the rugged beauty of Lee's Ferry Recreational Area is forever.

Pipe Springs--Lee's Ferry

In 1858 a party of Mormon missionaries led by Jacob Hamblin stopped at this place, which offered the only available water for a radius of sixty miles. William Hamblin, a real sharpshooter, wagered he could shoot the bottom out of Dudley Leavitt's pipe at fifty paces. Leavitt placed the pipe on a rock and Hamblin shot the bottom neatly out of it . . . thus the name Pipe Spring. The first telegraph line in northern Arizona was from Kanab, Utah to Pipe Spring.