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Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.
Tours of Glen Canyon Dam. Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam is open daily. Public tours of the dam are closed. For more information about Glen Canyon Dam, please visit the US Bureau of Reclamation. Load up and enjoy a ride on Lake Powell.
Glen Canyon Dam is the principal water storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project. Built in a virtually inaccessible area, it is one of the major engineering and construction achievements in the United States. Glen Canyon Dam impounds Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the country.
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, at the heart of the "Grand Circle" of Southwest national parks, provides unique and refreshing opportunities for travel-weary visitors. Stay for an hour and take a tour of Glen Canyon Dam, or stay for a week to camp on the shores of Lake Powell in a houseboat.
Newly discovered damage to part of the dam holding back America's second-largest reservoir has people who rely on the Colorado River worried about their ability to get the water they need.
Glen Canyon Dam. Current Status. Last Updated: October 15, 2024. The unregulated inflow volume to Lake Powell during September was 208 thousand acre-feet (kaf) (60 percent of average). The release volume from Glen Canyon Dam in September was 568 kaf.
The cost of hydropower modifications at Glen Canyon Dam would be significant. At the meeting, Reclamation officials implied the range would likely be between $500 million and $3 billion dollars. Minimum elevation hydropower production estimates were between 60 and 210 Megawatts, a small fraction of the dam’s 1320 Megawatt capacity.
Near the border of Arizona and Utah, the 710-foot-tall Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon to form Lake Powell. The lake is so massive that, although the dam shut its gates in 1963, it took until 1980 for Lake Powell to fill.
It affords an unparalleled view of the river, the canyon, and Glen Canyon Dam. This scenic view provides spectacular vistas of the Colorado River as it flows through Glen Canyon and of Glen Canyon Dam itself. From the parking area, follow the metal handrail down the uneven rock steps.
Glen Canyon Dam is the principal water storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP). Built in a virtually inaccessible area, it is one of the major engineering and construction achievements in the United States.