Since Glen Canyon Dam's completion in the 1960s, Utahns have revered Lake Powell for a lot of reasons: It's a houseboating paradise, with many families planning multigenerational trips on the water ...

Drought and steady demand along the Colorado River are draining the nation's second-largest reservoir. Land that was once ...

Editor’s note • The following is an excerpt from the Salt Lake Tribune’s new Open Lands newsletter, a twice-a-month newsletter about Utah’s land, water and air from the environment team. For a sneak ...

As Lake Powell's water levels have dropped over decades of drought, the Glen Canyon is filling with verdant vegetation. Many areas of the canyon that have been submerged by the reservoir for decades ...

"I understand why people love this place. I think it's the most beautiful canyon in the world." For 17 years, Eric Balken has sailed the choppy waters of Lake Powell along with stepping foot on the ...

I’ll go out on a limb to say Lake Powell is the greatest lake in the entire world. It’s basically a flooded Grand Canyon that you can “hike” by boat. Thanks to its 2,000 miles of shoreline, protected ...

Lake Powell is a striking body of water surrounded by cliffs and structures of rusty, layered, Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone, studded with minuscule quartz crystals that glimmer when the desert sun ...

LAKE POWELL, Utah — A banner year for moisture has helped raise the levels at Lake Powell. "We came up 64 feet this year, the water, the lake level is beautiful," said Judy Franz, Executive Director ...

Sand waves flow behind Jack Stauss, repeatedly rolling and breaking near a debris-heavy section of the river as he discusses sediment-related phenomena in Lake Powell. “That’s the delta making itself ...

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the nation's two largest reservoirs, are following patterns very similar to 2021, the year the ...