Share Our World: Glen Canyon Dam
We started our family Lake Powell Vacation in Page, Arizona.
On Sunday we went to church, the Glen Canyon Dam and Horseshoe Bend at sunset.
Here is a view of the Dam and Lake Powell from the Carl Hayden Visitor Center. The white line on the canyon wall is sometimes referred to as the 'bathtub ring' and is caused by the calcium carbonate and other hard minerals in the water that attach themselves to the sandstone leaving behind a white mark. The top of the white mark is the high water mark. 1
You can really see how low the lake is right now.
There is a very nice visitor center with a lot of information about the dam, Lake Powell and the surrounding area. There is also huge windows in the visitors center overlooking the dam.
Of special interest was the dinosaur tracks right outside the visitor center.
According to the National Park Service
Until the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in the 1960s and subsequent creation of Lake Powell, the central portion of the Colorado Plateau and Glen Canyon was mostly inaccessible.
Dinosaurs evolved as the climate changed and were common by the Jurassic Period. Sandstone created by the ancient sand dunes of Jurassic deserts preserves dinosaur tracks. Tracks of theropods, large carnivorous dinosaurs, are found in the Wingate Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, and Navajo Sandstone. Several known track sites have been covered by the water of Lake Powell. 2
Another dam view looking towards the lake.
Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon when the Glen Canyon Dam was completed in 1963. It is a major tourist destination for millions of people each year. 3
The Southwest United States is in a serious draught and the levels of Lake Powell are seriously low.
This is a picture of the area from inside the visitor center.
Interesting facts
Lake Powell is the 2nd largest artificial reservoir in the United States.
It is 186 miles (299 km) long
It has 1960 miles (3161 km) of shoreline
It has over 96 major side canyons
It has capacity of 27 million acre-feet (32 million cubic meters).
The average depth is 132 feet (40m)
The max depth is 583 feet (178m)
The rivers flowing in are Colorado, Escalante, Sau Juan and Green River
The river flowing out is the Colorado River
This dam supplies electrify to Colorado, Wyoming, and most of New Mexico and Utah and California, Nevada and most of Arizona.
Here is the steel bridge you drive to cross the Colorado River. It is 700 feet (210 m) above the river making it one of the highest bridges in the US.
The family outside the visitor center.
Funny video of me and @jarvie telling dam jokes
Sources:
National Park Service- Glen Canyon
National Park Service- Glen Canyon FAQ
Lake Powell- Wikepedia
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Ah, Sara. As always, a great post about a place near and dear to my heart. Thank you.
In a heavy wind that bridge is interesting on a motorcycle :) It's interesting in a car when the wind is getting it on.
I usually stop at the vista on the other side of the river, a little different perspective on the dam. Like this:
It has obviously been several years since I've been there-look at the water level in 2017.
Thanks again Sara.
Oh I like this perspective. My friend was asking me about a tour of the dam. That would be interesting too.
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Glan Canyon Dam is a very imposing dam, and we here in Romania have a dam just as big is called Vidraru Dam in Arges county.
Wow that landscape around Vidaru Dam is so pretty!
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