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.

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 …

2024年1月2日 · 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.

2024年12月2日 · 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. Smooth water float trips on the Colorado River from Lees Ferry to Horseshoe Bend and back. The rafts can also provide backhaul service for private paddlecraft.

2024年1月15日 · Glen Canyon Dam currently maintains 30 MW (approximately 1,300 cfs) of generation capacity in reserve in order to respond to a system emergency even when generation rates are already high. System emergencies occur infrequently and typically require small responses from Glen Canyon Dam.

2024年4月17日 · 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 ...

2024年1月9日 · Glen Canyon Dam. Glen Canyon Dam was authorized by Congress in 1956 to provide water storage in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The result was Lake Powell, the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States. (Lake Mead is the largest.) It took seventeen years for the lake to reach its full pool level of 3700 feet (1128m) above sea level.

2022年12月28日 · Located close to the town of Page, in the northern part of the US State of Arizona, the Glen Canyon Dam is indeed an architectural marvel. This 220 m high concrete arch-gravity dam was constructed between 1956 to 1966 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation on the mighty Colorado River.

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.

Grab a canoe, kayak, or motorboat and play in the second largest reservoir in the United States! Or, hike along the Escalante River, visit side canyons, and sleep under the stars. The completion of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963 forever changed the Colorado River.