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 * Glen Canyon National Recreation Area** offers backcountry and water-based recreation. The park stretches from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah. The size is more than 1.25 million acres.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area includes 588,855 acres of proposed wilderness and 48,955 acres of potential wilderness. Together this represents 51% of the total land area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, containing a variety of culturally and ecologically unique landscapes where visitors can experience the character and solitude of wilderness within a recreation area.

Indigenous World
For many Indigenous peoples in the Four Corners region, Rainbow Bridge is a spiritually occupied landscape that is inseparable from their cultural identities and traditional beliefs.

Rainbow Bridge National Monument was established in 1910 to protect a large and exceptionally scenic natural bridge and its surrounding area. At 160 acres, the monument is bounded by Glen Canyon and the Navajo Nation lands. Rainbow Bridge is sacred to several American Indian tribes, including the Hopi Tribe, Kaibab Paiute Tribe, Navajo Nation, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (White Mesa Band). The stone arc of Rainbow Bridge is composed of Navajo sandstone on a base of Kayenta sandstone. Rainbow Bridge spans 275 feet, reaching a height of 290 feet above Bridge Creek and ranging from 33 to 42 feet thick.

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam

Park
https://www.nps.gov/glca https://www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/guidedtours.htm https://www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm [|PDF] https://www.facebook.com/glencanyonnra

Elsewhere on the Web
https://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/crsp/gc

Headlines
[] http://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/16/feds-20-years-glen-canyon-dam-colorado-river https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/14/glen-canyon-dam-50-years/2981273