Drift Desert, Arizona

Drift Desert is a former ranch and steamboat landing on the Colorado River, now a ghost town, in La Paz County, Arizona.

Drift Desert was a ranch with a woodyard landing for the George Alonzo Johnson's steamboats on the Colorado River.

[1]: 65, 168  Drift Desert appears on the 1861 Geological Map No.

Joseph C. Ives, which shows the course of the Colorado River from its mouth on the Gulf of California to Las Vegas Wash and the location of its features and expedition camps along the way.

[2] Today the old landing of Drift Desert on the riverbank has disappeared.