View from Horseshoe Bend Overlook 2

by Barbara Zahno

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View from Horseshoe Bend Overlook 2

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Barbara Zahno

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Photograph - Fine Art Photography - Photopaintings - Available On All Faa Products !

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Gorgeous View from Horseshoe Bend Overlook near Page, Arizona at Lake Powell and the Mountain Ranges - a wonderful wall decor and also available on all products offered by FAA and Pixels.

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Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. It is a major vacation spot that around 2 million people visit every year. It is the second largest man-made reservoir by maximum water capacity in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet of water when full. However, due to high water withdrawals for human and agricultural consumption, and because of subsequent droughts in the area, Lake Powell is currently larger than Mead in terms of volume of water currently held, depth and surface area. Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the Glen Canyon Dam, which also led to the creation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a popular summer destination. The reservoir is named for explorer John Wesley Powell, a one-armed American Civil War veteran who explored the river via three wooden boats in 1869.
en.wikipedia.org

The overlook at Horseshoe Bend is served by a large parking area on the west side of US 89, 5 miles south of Glen Canyon Dam; big enough to accommodate the tour buses that often stop here. The adjacent land, and the viewpoint, are actually just south of the Glen Canyon NRA boundary, on the Navajo Reservation, but the trail is managed by the NPS. The wide path climbs a little to a low, flat-topped hill then descends gently down the far side, across a mix of slickrock and dunes to the unfenced overlook, on the rim of cliffs that are quite sheer for most of the 1,100 foot drop to the river below. The water in the Colorado is slow moving, greenish blue in color and edged by thin strips of bright green vegetation - a striking contrast to the red-brown Navajo sandstone cliffs at either side. There are often several rafts and boats in view, making the short upstream journey from Lees Ferry; sandbanks and bushy areas along the river provide many stopping places. americasouthwest.com

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July 10th, 2016

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