American Placer Corporation Office

• Headquarters for Charles Spencer's mining operations.

Antelope Point Entrance Station

• Antelope Point Marina Entrance Station is open daily. Pay Glen Canyon and Navajo Nation entrance fees here.

Antelope Point Public Launch Ramp

• Antelope Point Launch Ramp, located near Antelope Point Marina, is open seasonally for you to launch your boat. Due to low water, this ramp is only available for paddlecraft hand launching.

Balanced Rock at Lees Ferry

• Learn how these rugged boulders rolled to rest delicately balanced only a few feet above the ground.

Beehives Trailhead

• Trailhead for the Beehives trail, near the south entrance to Wahweap.

Bullfrog Entrance Station

• Bullfrog Entrance Station is open every day, all day. When there is not a person at the booths, use the automated fee machine for entrance fees.

Bullfrog Main Launch Ramp

• Bullfrog Main launch ramp, located near the Defiance House Lodge at Bullfrog. This ramp is operable for launching until the lake level is below 3578'. A spur ramp off the side of this ramp is available for vessels less than 25' long.

Bullfrog North Launch Ramp

• Bullfrog North launch ramp, located north or the Boat rentals dock at Bullfrog, is open to launch your boat when Bullfrog Main ramp closes. This ramp is available to small vessels with the help of boilerplate extensions and the left lane is operable to large vessels, including houseboats, at 3529 ft.

Cathedral Wash at Lees Ferry

• Trailhead for Cathedral Wash hike

Dam Overlook Trailhead

• This is the trailhead for the Glen Canyon Dam Overlook

Defiance House Archeological Site

• Defiance House Archeological Site is a set of Ancestral Puebloan structures, petroglyphs, and pictographs tucked into a corner of Forgotten Canyon on lake Powell. It is only accessible by boat and then a hike. Conditions of the hike are not monitored, so we do not know if it is too muddy to go there today. There are no amenities at the site, take care of your needs before you arrive. Visit with respect.

Founding Family

• Meet the Lees, the first family to establish the ferry and live at Lonely Dell Ranch.

Glen Canyon Park Headquarters

• The park headquarters for Glen Canyon national recreation Area is located at 691 Scenic View Road, Page AZ. Only the lobby is open to the public. There are no public restrooms or potable water. No overnight camping. The lobby is open weekdays 7am-4pm except federal holidays. You can purchase entrance fees for Glen Canyon and America the Beautiful passes, cards only. Some information is available, but we recommend going to the Carl Hayden Visitor Center for trip planning.

Halls Crossing Entrance Station

• Halls Crossing Entrance Station is open every day, all day. When there is not a person at the booth, use the automated fee machine for entrance fees.

Halls Crossing Launch Ramp

• Halls Crossing launch ramp, located at the Halls Crossing Marina, Hwy 276, Lake Powell, Utah, is open to launch your boat year-round. This ramp is available for all vessel launching.

Hanging Garden Trailhead

• Trailhead for Hanging Garden, just east of the Glen Canyon Dam off Highway 89.

Historic District River Trail

• Start the Historic River District guided walking tour here. View a timeline of the ferry crossing and those who worked and lived here on the edge of the Colorado River.

Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River

• Below the rim, the Colorado River makes a wide sweep around a sandstone escarpment. Here at Horseshoe Bend, the Colorado River created a roughly 1,000 foot (305 m) deep, 270º horseshoe-shaped bend in Glen Canyon.

Irrigation

• Learn how Mormon pioneers brought water into their desert homestead.

Lee's Backbone

• Crossing the river wasn't the only difficult part of the journey, as getting to the river front proved equally challenging on this primitive "road".

Lees Ferry Boat Launch

• Colorado River boat launch for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Grand Canyon National Park ( permit required ).

Lees Ferry Entrance Station

• Lees Ferry Entrance Station is open all day every day. There are no humans there, but an automatic fee machine available for credit cards only in order to pay your entrance fees.

Lees Ferry Fort

• Lees Ferry Fort welcomed travelers near and far.

Lone Rock Beach Entrance Station

• Lone Rock Beach Entrance Station is open every day, all day. When there is not a person at the booths, use the automated fee machine for entrance fees.

Lonely Dell Ranch Historic Site

• This historic ranch, near the mouth of the Paria River, was home to the families who operated Lees Ferry. The place was so isolated that the families working at the crossing needed to be self-sufficient, growing food for themselves and their animals. Hard labor changed the barren desert into a green oasis.

Lonely Dell Root Cellar

• Before modern electric appliances the families of Lonely Dell used a root cellar to keep food from spoiling, and sometimes themselves escaping from the heat of the summer day.

Mining the Chinle Shale

• Learn of the mining efforts that happened along the Colorado River.

Navajo Bridge

• A historic steel-arch bridge and new counterpart spans the Colorado River side-by-side in northern Arizona. On US Highway 89A in Marble Canyon, AZ approx 45 miles north of Highway 89 turnoff. As you approach the driving bridge, slow down to 25mph. You can pull over on either side of the spans. The Navajo Nation side offers arts and jewelry stands. The Glen Canyon NRA side has a visitor center built out of a 1930s rest area. Park, shop, walk, read about the site, view condors.

Paria Riffle and the Colorado River

• Visit where the slow and muddy Paria River tumbles in and mixes with the fast Colorado River. Beach Access. Fishing with license permitted. Swim at own risk.

Pedestal Alley Trailhead

• This is the Trailhead for the Pedestal Alley Trail, north of the Bullfrog district on the Burr trail road.

Pioneer Cemetery

• Who lived and died at the ranch? Their lives may have ended here but their stories would continue on.

Polygamist Cabin

• From busy outpost to quiet hideout, Lonely Dell Ranch helps preserve a religious way to live.

Red Wash Trailhead

• This is the trailhead for the Red Wash trail, also known as the Bullfrog Slot Canyon trail.

Samantha's Cabin

• Built by her husband in 1886, Samantha's home had many purposes through the years.

Spencer Boiler

• Remains of gold mining efforts abandoned on the river front.

Spencer Steamboat

• A steamboat abandoned on the riverfront, now only the remains of the steam engine peaks out from the Colorado River when it runs low.

Spencer Trail

• The narrow and steep trail once was passage for pack animal hauling of supplies, today is challenging hike for those fearless of heights.

Stateline Auxiliary Launch Ramp

• Stateline Auxiliary launch ramp, located near the bottom of Wahweap Stateline launch ramp, is open for launch/retrieval of all motorized vessels.

Stud Horse Trailhead

• This is the Trailhead for the Stud Horse Point area, near Greenhaven AZ via a few backcountry BLM and NPS roads.

The Big Relief Map

• The Glen Canyon and Surrounding Area Relief Map sits in a place of honor at the Powell Museum & Archives next to Glen Canyon Conservancy's Flagship office. Use it to help plan your Glen Canyon adventure, or pretend you are in space looking down at the landscape. Whoa. Earth is big.

The Chains

• The Chains, a choose your own adventure at your own risk hiking/swimming/fishing area.

The Edge of Wilderness

• The last stop for the Lonely Dell guided tour overlooks the Paria River and the remains of a past irrigation pump.

The Family Home

• Ferryman Warren Johnson builds a two-story house for his growing family. The large home is the center of the ranch until it burns down in 1926.

The Orchard

• Fruit trees in this desert oasis make for a delicious stop on the Lonely Dell Guided Walking tour.

USGS Guesthouse & Spencer Bunkhouse

• Stone buildings lined the river's edge each having a few purposes.

Upper Ferry Site

• The new ferry site improved the tricky transportation across the river.

Vermillion Cliffs at Lees Ferry

• Vermillion Cliffs are just one of the layers of rock seen at Lees Ferry. Learn about the others and how they make up the Grand Staircase of geology.

Wahweap Main Launch Ramp

• Wahweap Main launch ramp is located next to the Lake Powell Resort at Wahweap. The ramp is open to all motorized vessels. Paddlecraft and hand-launch should use Stateline Main or Antelope Point Public launch ramps.

Wahweap North Entrance Station

• Wahweap North Entrance Station is open every day, all day. When there is not a person at the booths, use the automated fee machine for entrance fees.

Wahweap Overlook

• A short journey from the Carl Hayden Visitor Center, you will find the Wahweap Overlook. This high point offers a 360-degree panorama of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. It is a “must see” at anytime of day, however, sunrise and sunset adds a fusion of brilliant color to this awe-inspiring scene. There is a shade shelter and a bench for your viewing comfort. The overlook is open from sunrise to sunset.

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