LAKE POWELL
ARIZONA
Location for the 1968 Version of "Planet of the Apes"
The first exposure to Lake Powell
was in the 1968 version of "Planet of the Apes’ when the space-ship crash lands
in Lake Powell. The desert scenes after that were filmed around Page, Glen
Canyon and Lake Powell. Since then I have returned to Lake Powell many times,
stayed at the Courtyard by Marriott in Page, eaten at the fairly average restaurants
in Page, visited the Glen Canyon Dam and gone further to Antelope Canyon and
Rainbow Bridge by boat which gives you the best feel for this magnificent waterway.
In the 1940’s a number of dams
were planned for the Colorado River in the Colorado Plateau in Utah and
Arizona. There were many arguments about location and Glen Canyon was selected
and the dam named after Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran who
explored the river three times in 1869.Work started on the dam in 1960 and it
was completed in 1963.It is 216 metres high. It took sixteen years before the
lake filled. It extends 299 KM and is 25 km at its widest part with maximum
depth of 40 m and a capacity of 30,0001 km3.
Page sits at 1255 m and
is equidistant between Las Vegas and Phoenix (272 miles).
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