(St. George, UT) — There is a new attendance record for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The National Park Service released its report on attendance and Glen Canyon ranked as one of the highest and reported it had 5-point-2-million visitors in 2023. The previous yearly high was in 2017 with […]
(Undated) — The Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will begin its winter season on Wednesday. Some facilities in the recreation area will be closed to prevent freezing and other problems during cold weather. Most of the closures are for public restrooms and pump-out facilities at campgrounds and boating ramps. Hours […]
(St. George, UT) — Flash floods are likely to sweep across all of Southern Utah’s national parks and national monuments today. The Southern Utah Flash Flooding Potential Rating shows floods are probable at Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Capitol Reef, and Canyonlands along with Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Glen Canyon […]
(Lake Powell, UT) — Those looking to get outdoors can do so without their wallets this weekend. The National Park Service says a free entrance day is being offered this Saturday at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Other national parks around the state and country are also waiving entrance fees […]
(St. George, UT) — Four Utah national parks are listed among the most dangerous in America. The online resource Outforia says Zion National Park is the sixth-most dangerous and Glen Canyon National Park is seventh. Arches National Park ranks tenth, and Bryce Canyon National Park is the 42nd most dangerous. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV-TV) — Authorities say a 70-year-old man has died after collapsing while returning from a five-day hike in a canyon in southeastern Utah. KUTV-TV reported that the Kane County sheriff’s office was responding to an emergency incident in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on Wednesday when […]
Visitors to a national recreation area straddling the Arizona-Utah border are being asked to stay away from a rock art site that features sheep carved thousands of years ago. The petroglyph panel is along the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry. It falls within the Glen Canyon […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Glen Canyon National Recreation Area authorities say an Arizona man has apparently drowned in Lake Powell. They say 33-year-old Albert Shortman of Cow Springs was pronounced dead at the scene Sunday by the Coconino County Medical Examiner. Shortman’s body was transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a man has accidentally fallen about 800 feet (243 meters) to his death at the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area in northern Arizona. Sheriff’s officials say no foul play is suspected in the death of 33-year-old Zachary Wallace of Phoenix. Wallace’s brother told National […]
