It was located on the Colorado just above the Virgin River, near Junction City.

Both the former sites of the ferry and of Rioville were submerged below Lake Mead, created by a dam on the Colorado River.

Ferry rights were sold to James Thompson who, in 1870, sold them to Daniel Bonelli,[2] a Swiss immigrant and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from St. Thomas, Nevada.

[3] The ferry connected the road to the mining camps like Cerbat and Mineral Park, and to the Hardyville - Prescott Road, in Mohave County, Arizona to the road to the settlements on the Muddy and Virgin Rivers in Nevada and Southwestern Utah that supplied the camps.

[4]: 97  A ferry operated at this site until 1935, when Lake Mead began to rise behind a dam on the Colorado River.