Kannah Creek is an extremely important source of water, originating on an elevated oasis, in an otherwise very arid region.
The Kannah Creek trail is 7.88 miles long from the base of the mesa to the upper rim, ending at Carson Lake.
In the pine and aspen forest on the higher altitude areas of the Grand Mesa, elk are plentiful, deer, foxes and coyotes, eagles and hawks, marmots, bighorn sheep, canada lynx, mountain goats songbirds.
[4] Kannah Creek is derived from snowpack that accumulates all winter and spring and acts as a frozen reservoir where it slowly melts and runs off all year.
Afterwards gravity is used to channel and divert water to storage points located around the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area.