Show j t t i c t II I a u I i r d t N PS r f 1 T tr p S 1 2 r ri II I I i r I This Thle Is Glen Canyon Dam Dam Dam- at the way halfway completion mark The dam clam will be feet tell tall when completed and will back up a mammoth reservoir N Note te size of cars cara on bridge linking canyon walls of In a It COlI 1 of or Jaunts on the rC of the Green San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan ot or Colorado Rivers will l labout be beabout beabout about as as co common Inmon as as riding on an the Stolen Shen 1 Parry Ferry rry The a re reason son tot tbt this explosion of water interest la k one of the j rugged inaccessible yet ible jt ible yet inc t regions regions' regional i of or the the- United States State is Glen Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon Dam Glen Canyon Dam downstream on the Colorado River miles I I from the Utah Utah Arizona line Ine will give sive the nation one o of its biggest t best test and most spectacular play- play The Th The foot high dam now now about half talf completed will form mammoth Lake Powell very properly properly properly pro pro- perly named for forr the one-armed one plon pioneering naturalist of the 1870 9 John Wesley Powell Lako Lake Powell lowell Lake Powell which 1 wilt be he the world third largest man made reservoir will back lip up Into the thousands of ot narrow canyons and washes hashes creating a total shoreline of about 1800 miles That's as ae long lone ai aa 1111 0 a shoreline I extending from Salt Lake City I I U to San Francl Francisco o to Los Loo Angeles I t tand and back to Salt Lake City I I Lake Powell Powel will extend miles tulles back Iback up the Colorado River I I and 71 tulles back up the San SanJuan Juan I At lute Basin where the road from Hanksville Utah now continues con con- across Colorado River on on ona r ff rl a terry ferry the lake will be 40 feet j c deep and deep and this thU is miles from the dam Today it Id lri virtually Impossible to visualize the size or the depth of ot the lake You stand out on a II flat mesa miles in diameter and you know the Colorado River is to hundreds hundred's of feet teet below you I At your feet teet will be a campground campground camp campp ground and right in front of you ou will be a sandy Handy beach and the water will be 20 feet teet away Waters of the lake will be clear and clean They will be cold out In the middle and down in the i deep dep reaches where the depth will rea reach h several everal hundred feet But Dut up in to th the shallow arms arma the water probably will be Just right for Cor swimming water skiing fish fish- fishIng Ing tug and the National Parks Servo Ice la Ls working right now to make sure cure it U will be Just right for boating Fishing Planned Every public agency Involved with the fishing the US U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service the Utah Fish and Game Department ab about ut 90 per cent of ot Lake Powell will bein be beIn bein in Utah and the Arizona Fish find end Game Department already are making plans for tor the cast cut and retrieve set Current hopes call can for tor dual tf fishery bery with rainbow trout happily happily hap hap- living U It up In the deeper colder waters of the lake and with bass baso abounding In the more shallow warmer warmer portions At least It H Is la the plan now to plant both trout and b bass base il In the lake Jake in the first experiment A AI Aa for the boaters Lake Powell could well become Americas America greatest Inland boating p paradise When the water backs up and makes some of ot Glen Canyons Canyon splendor accessible by boat the lake will be administered i somewhat somewhat some some- what like Ute downstream Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam Lake Powell will be wore more spec spec- spectacular than han Lake Jake Mead but pro pro- J bably wont wont won't get as heavy U tue e since it is not as close to recreation re reo creation hungry Californians Even livon so some one to two million vl visitors are expected every year The waters will start backing up upi i f behind the dam in 1963 and al- al moot meet immediately the boaters will be out en on masse maase Develop Nine Nino Sites Site i Planning to accommodate the I II expected mobs the National park Service cooperating with the Bureau Bureau of Reclamation carefully carefully care- care I fully has hall blueprinted sizeable water water wa wa- ter developments ts at nine sites I Plana Plans call tor for developments such as alS road boat and air acce access 2 larina eating lodging campgrounds camp camp- campgrounds grounds picnic areas trailer lager lages stores swimming beaches va-I va and boat launching facilities I These nine camp and marine area 9 will be located at Wahweap Warm Creek Creek Padre Point the Hole Rock Oak Island Mesa Shock Bar Dar OU au Sheep Bar and Bullfrog Creek Most o of or these areas are are about about miles mUes from Salt Lake City van and ana I. I about miles from Los Angeles Boating tint time from Wahweap closest to Glen Gleni Canyon Dam north over the mile mUe run to Bullfrog Creek Cree will be bB six hours houra jl l In the average powerboat cruts cruls s i beneath multicolored multi cliffs elm j jand I and mesas mesa in a region now im- im i I ipa j passable able Lake Powell and all Its water waler I are I are not Involved La to the current currentI I National Park Par did dla- i cuss Ion The proposed Canyon Canyon- Canyon I lands Park area Is north and east cast I of the lake site Lake Powell aready ai- ai i ready teady has been designated a a. National iNaI Na- Na I Recreation area I II I Rainbow In addition to Increasing Increasing- the nations nation's outdoor outdoor- fun facilities facUlties Glen Canyon Dam will wUl provide access to 10 famed Rainbow Dridge In remote Southern Utah In its current semi isolated d status Rainbow Bridge I la Is accessible accessible access access- ible only by an arduous pack trip by horseback or OI by a long lona river Ii trip plus plU J a six mile hike bite I A As a result comparatively few tew I I persons h have ve seen trU foot foot high attraction the largest and most renowned of the tho worlds world's natural natural na na- na I tural bridges This new pew access to Rainbow Bridge La ls Just one of the I many many recreational bonuses I Ito to be provided by Lake Powell I I New vistas will be opened for conservationists tourists fishermen fishes fisher I omen men men boaters nature lovers out out 1 1 and the American famIlly tam lam I lly I Ii I II i It will be a land of space I I 1 enough of time enough certainly certain j certain certain- ly Iy of scenery enough for tor all aU corn com ere for tor many generation to come dome I |