Over a million acres around Lake Powell, spanning Arizona and Utah. Its visitation figure covers the entire recreation area across both states, not any single site within it. It recorded 4,725,610 recreation visits in 2024, counted across the whole recreation area.
This place scores 79.2 out of 100, at medium confidence. The score combines its published visitor count with public interest and tourism significance. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is a major vacation destination visited by approximately two million people every year. It holds 24,322,000 acre-feet (3.0001×1010 m3) of water when full, second in the United States to only the downstream reservoir of Lake Mead – though Lake Mead has fallen below Lake Powell in size several times during the 21st century in terms of volume of water, depth and surface area.
The Glen Canyon Bridge or Glen Canyon Dam Bridge is a steel arch bridge in Coconino County, Arizona, carrying U.S. Route 89 across the Colorado River. The bridge was originally built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to facilitate transportation of materials for the Glen Canyon Dam, which lies adjacent to the bridge just 865 feet (264 m) upstream.
A slot canyon with a more open top, so pictures come out better than in the upper Antelope Canyon. Entrance is only through a guided tour (see Ken's Tours, below).
A meander of the Colorado River enclosing a sandstone butte, seen from an unfenced rim 1,000 feet above the water, a mile and a half round trip from the car park.
