Topock, Arizona
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Topock is a small town in Arizona south of Bullhead and ESE of Needles, California on the California-Arizona border. Topock is best known for being a boating town as well as being home to an old Route 66 bridge featured in the classic film The Grapes of Wrath. It is located on the Colorado River, and there is a marshy area known as Topock Marsh, also a wildlife refuge, between the town and the river.
Topock is the site of one of PG&E's recompression stations on its super-inch natural gas pipeline from Texas to San Francisco completed in 1930.
[edit] Topock Marsh
The Topock Marsh is one of the larger Birding sites found in the Lower Colorado River Valley, found from south of Hoover Dam to the Colorado River Delta.