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Lake Powell

Beautiful contrast between desert and water

Lake in Glen Canyon NRA, Colorado Plateau in Halls Crossing, UT

Lake Powell is the second largest human-made reservoir in the United States and one of the most visually stunning. Few other places balance such beauty with the clear impacts of human activity. Millions of visitors flock to the reservoir and surrounding areas each year for every imaginable waterborne activity.

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Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona (most of it, along with Rainbow Bridge, is in Utah). It is a major vacation spot that around two 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 24,322,069 acre feet (3.0000830×1010 m3) of water when full. However, due to high water withdrawals for human and agricultural consumption, and because of subsequent droughts in the area, Lake Powell is currently larger than Lake Mead in terms of volume of water currently held, depth and surface area. 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…

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