RECREATION PLANS

The Glen Canyon of the Colorado River is an unusually placid, 162-mile reach from Hite, Utah, to Lees Ferry, Arizona. Major John Wesley Powell, who headed the first expedition down the river in 1869, named it Glen Canyon because of the occasional oak glens along its banks and at its junctions with tributaries.

The 186-mile-long Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) will extend upstream into Cataract Canyon. The lake and adjoining lands have been established as the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area under the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior. This is the status of Lake Mead and its environs behind Hoover Dam.

The Park Service will soon undertake construction of recreational facilities for public use as Lake Powell begins to fill in 1962. The Glen Canyon Recreation Area promises to become one of the Nation’s outstanding tourist attractions.

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Lake Powell, behind Glen Canyon Dam, will be flanked by varied and beautiful scenery.

The first placement of concrete—June 17, 1960.

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HIGHWAYS TO GLEN CANYON DAM.—Excellent, new, paved highways have been built to the Glen Canyon damsite. A 76-mile highway through the highly scenic area has been built from Kanab, Utah, to the damsite. A new 25-mile highway extends northward from Bitter Springs to the damsite. Both of these highway links connect with the Glen Canyon Bridge to form a new link in U.S. Highway 89. The Glen Canyon Bridge was completed in February 1959.

DISTANCES TO GLEN CANYON FROM:

Kanab, Utah 76 miles

Flagstaff, Arizona 135 miles

(Flagstaff and Marysvale, Utah, 190 miles from the damsite, are nearest railheads.)

Cedar City, Utah 161 miles

Phoenix, Arizona 300 miles

Salt Lake City, Utah 384 miles

National Parks:

Zion 100 miles

Bryce 138 miles

Grand Canyon, North Rim 124 miles

Grand Canyon, South Rim 142 miles

• Two 16 mm. color, sound films, Canyon Conquest and Key to the Future, are available upon request for showing to school and civic groups, clubs, and other public gatherings. Both films show men and machines at work on this challenging Reclamation project. Send your requests to: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, P.O. Box 360, Salt Lake City 10, Utah. Eastern area residents may write to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington 25, D.C.

[1961—REVISED] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1960 OF—574577

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