The most direct way to get to the area is a flight to Page, AZ from Las Vegas aboard Papillon or Scenic Airlines. The massive 710-feet high dam filled the serpentine network of canyons with 500 feet of water, creating 1,900 miles of shoreline. The canyon complex then became America’s second largest reservoir with the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. It is only a short drive from Page, Arizona and is about 135 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona, 200 miles from Grand Canyon’s South Rim, and 300 miles from Las Vegas, NV.
America’s second largest reservoir, is located in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 1.25 million acre natural wonder that stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah.
