Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Glen Canyon Table of Contents

• Map of the NRA
• Photographs
• Introduction
• Locations, including Page, Hite, Bullfrog and Halls Crossing
• Glen Canyon hiking - maintained trails
• Glen Canyon hiking - off-trail routes, mainly along canyons

Location

Map of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell.

Photographs

Page, Smoky Mountain Road, Hite, Halls Crossing

All Glen Canyon photographs.

Introduction

Access to Lake Powell and Glen Canyon by road is very limited. Activities are concentrated at the western edge, near Page, where various beaches, resorts, marinas and campsites are found along the shoreline, with every necessary facility available in town. At the far northeast end of the lake there are basic services and a few tracks leading to the water at Hite, though decreasing water levels in recent years have left this village quite far from the shoreline. The only other paved approach roads are to the Bullfrog and Halls Crossing marinas two thirds of the way up the lake, which are opposite each other and linked by a car ferry.

Apart from these four locations, various long dirt tracks lead to places along the lakeshore but these are generally only suitable for four wheel drive vehicles, although normal cars can drive along the Smoky Mountain Road, north of Lake Powell near the western end. This allows access to some beaches, before the road turns north towards Escalante.

Glen Canyon Locations

Glen Canyon Hiking

There are very few maintained paths in the 1.25 million acres of Glen Canyon NRA; otherwise, hiking is off-trail, visiting narrow canyons, overlooks of the lake, hoodoos and other eroded formations.

Maintained Paths


Lake Powell Tours

Glen Canyon Routes


There are many other narrow canyons close to the NRA, including those near Page, North Wash, Trachyte Creek, White Canyon and the Escalante River.