Photos: Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, December 2019

This page features photos of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell, near Page, Arizona. The 710-foot dam was built from 1956 to 1966. The reservoir is named for explorer and former U.S. Geological Survey Director John Wesley Powell. For more on the controversial dam and its future, see this Western Water story we republished.

DateDecember 26-27, 2019
LocationGlen Canyon Dam, near Page, Arizona (map)
PhotographerMitch Tobin
OrganizationThe Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder
RightsFree to reuse under Creative Commons license, with credit to “Mitch Tobin/WaterDesk.org”

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