
A locked gate at the start of the hike.

Descending Gold Strike Canyon.

Interstate 11 above, a bit noisy for the first part of the hike.

The first mile or so is easy downhill wash walking.

View back up the canyon.

A peek at the narrows to come.

The first scramble obstacle.

View back at a boulder-choked section of the canyon.

More pretty narrows.

View back within the first significant narrows.


A narrow portion of canyon with a fixed line to descend a dryfall.

View back at the narrow section, complete with graffiti. Lovely.

Gold Strike Canyon opens up for a short time before narrowing into the deeper, lower portion.

View back at an obstacle just before entering the lower half of the canyon.

Top of another narrow obstacle.

View back at the obstacle.

Narrowing, deepening.


A small hot spring. I believe this is the originally-named Gold Strike Hot Spring that has been mostly overlooked due to the more soakable Nevada Hot Springs farther down.

Pretty lighting in the narrows.

A view back up the canyon at some colorful flowing water.

A series of boulder-hopping obstacles.

View back at these obstacles.

The final descent, which has about a half dozen little route-finding puzzles, currently made easier using graffiti'd arrows.

Bouldery section before Gold Strike Hot Spring.

Close-up at the final bend in the canyon.

A warm pool.

Another contained pool.

Farther down the canyon.

View back up the canyon at the colorful algae.

Close-up at the pretty algae and plant life.

Approaching the last major pool.

View back up at the colorful stuff.

At the top of a small waterfall.

A view at the largest pool.

Close-up of the contained pool.

Approaching the end of Gold Strike Canyon, the Colorado River seen ahead.

At the Colorado River, view back up the canyon.

View north toward the bridge over the Hoover Dam.
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