About Colorado River, Martinez Lake, and Chocolate Mountains
About 60 miles east from SDSU’s Imperial Valley Campus you will come across the Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona. From here head north to explore what the many miles of rivers and dozens of lakes has to offer. A few of our favorite activities are fishing, boating, and camping along the river. Martinez Lake is one of our favorite stops along the river as it marks our famous Aztec Adventures Chocolate Mountain Float. Along the river fees and permits are required in some areas, visitors should check the park website and physical signage once they have arrived at their destination.
198 miles from SDSU Main Campus
90 miles from SDSU Imperial Valley Campus
Land Acknowledgement
As you recreate responsibly in these areas we ask that you acknowledge the land that you are on is the traditional territory and homelands of indigenous people. For more information on Land Acknowledgements, visit the Native Governance Center. To learn more about native land in your area, visit Native Land. To read San Diego State Universities Land Acknowledgement please visit The Division of Student Affairs and Campus Diversity: Tribal Liaison.
We stand upon a land that carries the footsteps of millennia of Kumeyaay people. They are a people whose traditional lifeways intertwine with a worldview of earth and sky in a community of living beings. This land is part of a relationship that has nourished, healed, protected and embraced the Kumeyaay people to the present day. It is part of a world view founded in the harmony of the cycles of the sky and balance in the forces of life. For the Kumeyaay, red and black represent the balance of those forces that provide for harmony within our bodies as well as the world around us. As students, faculty, staff and alumni of San Diego State University we acknowledge this legacy from the Kumeyaay. We promote this balance in life as we pursue our goals of knowledge and understanding. We find inspiration in the Kumeyaay spirit to open our minds and hearts. It is the legacy of the red and black. It is the land of the Kumeyaay.
For millennia, the Kumeyaay people have been a part of this land. This land has nourished, healed, protected and embraced them for many generations in a relationship of balance and harmony. As members of the San Diego State community we acknowledge this legacy. We promote this balance and harmony. We find inspiration from this land; the land of the Kumeyaay.
