The Crack at Wet Beaver Creek

The Crack is a pool on Wet Beaver Creek, inside the Wet Beaver Wilderness — a 6,155-acre wilderness area in the Coconino National Forest. It lies where the Bell Trail meets and crosses the creek, about three miles from the trailhead. The Bell Trail is a historic stock route of 10.8 miles that follows the creek upstream before climbing steeply to the Mogollon Rim at the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, and the pool sits at the point where the level walking ends and the climb begins. Wet Beaver Creek is perennial, which is what makes the pools along it reliable in a state where most watercourses are not; swimming is among the activities the Forest Service lists for the wilderness, along with fishing, wildlife watching and horse riding. Overnight camping is prohibited by Forest Order from the parking area upstream to a signed point about a quarter of a mile above the crossing, a closure made to reduce the impact the canyon has taken. The name is local usage: it appears in neither the Forest Service's material for the wilderness nor any geographic gazetteer.

Where it is

The Crack at Wet Beaver Creek is a natural landmark near Camp Verde, in Yavapai County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for The Crack at Wet Beaver Creek, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the low confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

• Coordinates and designations: Placed by hand at the Bell Trail creek crossing, cross-checked against OpenStreetMap trail and creek geometry to within 25 m
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates

Record last verified 2026-08-12.