Lake Powell
is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona.
It is a major vacation spot that around 2 million people visit every year. It
is the second largest man-made reservoir, by maximum water capacity, in the
United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet of water when
full. Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the Glen Canyon
Dam, which also led to the creation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a
popular summer destination. The reservoir is named for explorer John Wesley
Powell, a one-armed American Civil War veteran who explored the river via three
wooden boats in 1869. In 1972, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area was
established. It is public land managed by the National Park Service, and
available to the public for recreational purposes. It lies in parts of Garfield,
Kane, and San Juan counties in southern Utah, and Coconino County in northern
Arizona. The northern limits of the lake extend at least as far as the Hite
Crossing Bridge. Source
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