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Show t: .. . ! i , :s ... --' ,'.; . ' -. ' ,. ' ... ;,.a-.--frvr,.,;V,,.uvi . n Halls Crossing and Bulllrog Basin are Utah's most active marinas on beautiful Lake Powell a feature that has seldom seen by modern man until water began flowing back between the high sandstone sand-stone walls to form Lake Powell. Po-well. Now the low humof motor mo-tor boats cruising through with the deep blue and green lake. Five marinas service Lake Powell from Glen Canyon Dam to the beginning of the lake at Hite, Utah, at the northern end. Hite was named for Cass Hite, a renegade outlaw who built a cabin on the banks of the Colorado and made his living by panning flour-gold flour-gold from the streams. The small town never flourished and long before the backup waters began rising, ris-ing, Hite was a ghost town except for the ferry service. Now a marina provides fuel, a launching ramp and supply sup-ply store, plus primitive camping iacmues. Traveling in a southern direction di-rection from Hite, the narrow nar-row gorge begins to widen, and island buttes shoot out of the water. The National Park Service has provided floating "traffic signs" to warn boaters of shallow water and to designate the made a vast change in Southeastern Utah s desert. . . -a.-- ... A 8L 3k..iati4 Ml Si M. iSaSLSiisas-i Desert "Waterlnnd" Becomes Boaters Paradise Since the heavy concrete doors of Glen Canyon Dam slammed shut in 1963, an exciting ex-citing new form of recreational recrea-tional boating has opened up in the Southwest desert of Utah and Arizona. Backup waters have filled arid Glen Canyon, formed eons ago by the Colorado River. Dozens Doz-ens of side canyons running into the main gorse were .'the water-filled canyons is a familiar sound along the 180-mile stretch of water. Lake Powell is a different experience for boaters used to wide mountain lakes surrounded sur-rounded by pine trees andN wild flowers. Red sandstone pinnacles and cliffs splattered splatter-ed with black desert varnish stand where trees never grew in striking contrast main chnanel. Other markers name the side canyons. The boat trip from Hite to Bullfrog Basin is 42 miles of spectacular scenery including includ-ing such sites as Castle Butte, towering 4,750 feet above the landscape. Further Furth-er down the lake in Forgotten Forgot-ten Canyon is Defiance House, a series of ancient Indian dwellings tucked aw ay in the high cliffs. Just beyond is Bullfrog Basin and and across the bay, Hall's Crossing Ferry Service. Bullfrog is located on the lake's west side and Hall's Crossing on the east. To a casual observer it may seem unusual that along Lake. Powell's 1900 miles of shoreline shore-line two marinas would locate lo-cate only four miles apart, but the reason behind this is twofold. Bullfrog Basin and Hall's Crossing are situated in possibly pos-sibly the most beautiful portion por-tion of Glen Canyon National Nation-al Recreation Area. The location lo-cation is literally a boaters' , i c;. ana campers paiauiac. oiui. canyons like Moki, Lost Eden, Forgotten and Lake Canyon are within minutes from either marina. These canyons were once home for the Moki Indain, an ancient tribe that flourished 800 years ago. The dwellings can be seen high on the cliffs above the lake by the hun dreds of boaters who glide along the waters between the narrow, highwalled inlets. The canyons are also favorite favor-ite resting places for boaters boat-ers who desire relief from a warm summer sun that fortunately for-tunately seldom shines into the gigantic amphitheaters and grottoes carved beneath the cliffs. drawing card for locating the two marinas "side-by-side," the trip by car from Bullfrog on to Hall's Crossing Cross-ing is several hours, that is unless the motorist wants to use the ferry service at Hall's Crossing. Hall's Crossing can be reached by Utah Highway 95 'from Blanding. Route 276 connects Bullfrog Basin with Highway 95 out of Hanks-ville, Hanks-ville, at Trachyte Junction. Each marina has its own air strip and boat ramp. General stores provide campers cam-pers with all needed equipment equip-ment and food, and boaters can fill their coolers with kitchenettes and sleeping , room for four, six and eight people are being used in lieu of lodges. , Bullfrog Basin also has rental boats available, including in-cluding houseboats, and is planning a lodge and restaurant res-taurant to be completed in 1970. |