Lake Powell

3 hours from our BLM at Zion sits Lake Powell, a man-made lake created in 1963 on the Colorado River with the building of Glen Canyon Dam. All the houseboating magazines use this beautiful lake as their cover pic. It is 226 miles long and the second biggest man-made lake in America with Lake Mead created by the Hoover Dam as the biggest. This has always been on my bucket list and it did not disappoint. We stayed at Wahweap RV at Lake Powell Resort --on absolutely beautiful land. High rent district after our BLM! A 2 hour boat tour on the lake was truly awesome. It started out a little rough in that the captain started off with all the things they would normally do but because the usual boat they use for our tour had broken down we wouldn't be able to do. However, we had a lovely tour through Antelope and Glen Canyons. Every thing here is HUGE--6 lanes at the boat launch, a brown rocky beach a quarter of a mile from the parking lot, a large marina and resort. We are here before?!the crowd. 

The Marina is huge and this doesn't include the dock where you do the rentals
--a lot of these boats are time share because in Arizona you are not allowed to spend more
than 30 days a year on your own boat?!?

The beach area is as pretty as a post card-the water will continue to rise (about 14ft.) over the summer

The boat launch

The canyons were full of people out on the hot day

Glen Canyon Dam was built in the late 50's for hydroelectric power and flood control

The mighty Colorado is really important to the west, providing much of the
water to the farmers in the southwest