Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
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Contact Information:
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
P.O. Box 1507
Page, AZ 86040
928-608-6200 - Headquarters
928-608-6404 - Carl Hayden Visitor Center
435-684-7400 - Bullfrog Visitor Center
928-355-2234 - Lees Ferry Ranger Station
http://www.nps.gov/glca/
Size: 1,254,429 acres
Location: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is located in southeastern Utah and northern Arizona, encompassing the area surrounding Lake Powell, which stretches for 186 miles along the old Colorado River channel behind Glen Canyon Dam. Lees Ferry and the Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center are located on AZ 89A. Carl Hayden Visitor Center in Page, AZ is on AZ 89. The Bullfrog Visitor Center is located on UT 276. Halls Crossing is also reached by UT 276. Hite is located just off UT 95.
Description: This park lies in the midst of the most rugged canyon country on the Colorado Plateau. Lake Powell's 1,960 miles of shoreline provide a variety of water-based recreational opportunities.
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Operating
Hours: Carl Hayden Visitor Center, Page, AZ, daily, Memorial Day - Labor
Day, 8am to 6pm; rest of year, daily, 8am to 5pm; closed Thanksgiving,
Christmas, and New Years. Bullfrog Visitor Center, Bullfrog, UT, intermittently
in March, daily April - October, 8am to 5pm; closed November - February. Navajo
Bridge Interpretive Center, near Lees Ferry, daily mid-April - October, 9am to
5pm; weekends only, early April and November, 10am to 4pm.
History: Administered under cooperative agreements between Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Department of the Interior, April 18, 1958, and September 17, 1965. Established as a national recreation area on October 27, 1972.
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