#glen canyon

[elinerlina2]

Glen Canyon, Utah 🌍

[wandering-jana]

Horseshoe Bend, in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona.

[immaculatelyamiss]

Horseshoe Bend

Page, Arizona

[fatchance]

Obligatory Horseshoe Bend photo.

At Marble Canyon near Page, Arizona.

Update: @amatkins reblogged my post and noted that Horseshoe Bend is actually located in Glen Canyon. Marble Canyon begins further downstream. Notations on USGS topographic maps seem to indicate that Marble Canyon begins at Lees Ferry, at the confluence of the Colorado and Paria Rivers. I'm grateful for the correction. Whenever I'm in canyon country I like to try to relate what I am seeing with John Wesley Powell's account of his 1869 expedition down the Colorado River.

On August 4 he wrote this about this stretch of the river:

"To-day the walls grow higher and the canyon much narrower. Monuments are still seen on either side; beautiful glens and alcoves and gorges and side canyons are yet found. After dinner we find the river making a sudden turn to the northwest and the whole character of the canyon changed. The walls are many hundreds of feet higher, and the rocks are chiefly variegated shales of beautiful colors – creamy orange above, then bright vermilion, and below, purple and chocolate beds, with green and yellow sands. ... At night we stop at the mouth of a creek coming in from the right, and suppose it to be the Paria. ... Here the canyon terminates abruptly in a line of cliffs, which stretches from either side across the river." From The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, 1875

[seacr8ionz]

Sneaky

[harlan-so-c]

[classic-elegant-beautiful]

[maddi--paige]

36 hours in Page, Arizona, shot on a camcorder

[eohoppeofficial]

Rainbow Bridge, Glen Canyon, Utah, 1926.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

[nashpotatoesoutdoorshow]

Glen Canyon Dam in Page, AZ

It took 17 years to fill up the Glen Canyon Dam for the first time. I did some research and put together a short video…

[jmpphoto]

Glen Canyon Dam by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Glen Canyon Dam Page, Arizona

[rabbitcruiser]

Receding

What do you think about my pic?  

[immaculatelyamiss]

Glen Canyon at sunset

Page, Arizona

[newsarticletoday]

Consequences of Glen Canyon Dam Failure

[bigdirtgirl]

1957 - Katie Lee, goddess of Glen Canyon by Martin D. Koehler