Red Velvet Canyon

A pleasant and scenic short canyon with great views of the river from start to finish. Not as scenic and narrow as its nearby neighbor Blue Velvet, but a nice variety of short half day canyoneering. I would give this a 3.5 star rating but optimistically it gets a 4 star rating. For a great day I recommend going down Red velvet, back out Black Cat Canyon, down Blue Velvet canyon, than out AZ Hot Springs.

The approach is the same as Blue Velvet until you get over the ridge. Red Velvet is the drainage to the right of Blue Velvet.

The descent is a straight forward drop sequence of 5 rappels up to 100 ft. We didn't encounter any special challenges except for some slightly awkward overhung raps.