New permit will help Glen Canyon Recreation Area managers track visitors floating the Colorado River to Lees Ferry.

Photographing Glen Canyon — Again Tad Nichols once hoped his work could stop Lake Powell. Sixty years later, Dawn Kish is walking his path.

“Double Arch” — also nicknamed the “Crescent Pool”, “Hole in the Roof” and, less poetically, the “Toilet Bowl” — was a favorite of visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation ...

Grand Canyon river runners enjoyed the best camping beaches in years this season, and a riverside vegetation restoration project got a boost, both the result of the first planned springtime flood ...

By the time the waters of Lake Powell began to rise in 1963, their photos and notebooks salvaged accounts of petroglyphs, natural bridges and extensive, pristine ecosystems in the Glen Canyon area.

Along Glen Canyon’s tributaries, whole ecosystems have sprung back to life, biologically diverse and dominated by native species. Ecologists have been surprised by just how healthy the reemerging ...

Along Glen Canyon’s tributaries, whole ecosystems have sprung back to life, biologically diverse and dominated by native species.

But Lake Powell would still stretch 100 miles into Glen Canyon at dead pool. That’s because there is a significant design flaw in the dam: There is no drain at the bottom.

To critics, Glen Canyon Dam was one of the U.S.'s biggest environmental mistakes. But it generates electricity for about 5 million people in seven states.

The Glen Canyon Dam holds back Colorado River water to create Lake Powell in Page, Arizona on April 15, 2023. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The ...