The Betty’s Kitchen trail, along the Lower Colorado River. Visitors to the Yuma area can relax while casting a line and fishing from the pier, or barbecue in the picnic area, or take a stroll along the 0.5-mile interpretive trail.  Betty’s Kitchen is named after a café that stood at this site in the 1930s. This area in the Arizona desert has variety of flora (palo verde, quail bush, buccaris, mesquite, willows, cottonwoods, and cattails, ) and fauna (diamondback rattlesnakes,  common king snakes, raccoons, desert cottontails,  great horned owls, tree lizards, egrets, and numerous migrating songbirds).