Lees Ferry

Releases from Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River are low. But if they fall much more, commercial river rafters worry it could change their livelihoods and the nature of boating in the Grand Canyon.

The estimate pops up again and again in reporting on the West’s most important waterway, but one researcher thinks it might be slightly high. That might point to a bigger problem.

As the Dragon Bravo Fire grew nearly 26,000 acres over the weekend, smoke inundated portions of Marble Canyon and the House Rock Valley.

The site rate at Lees Ferry Campground in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will go up to $26 with the start of next year — a 30% increase from the current $20 per night.

Grand Canyon National Park officials are searching for a missing Santa Fe man who they believe may have attempted to float the Colorado River in a self-made wooden raft.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area saw 5.2 million visitors in 2023, making it one of the most visited NPS properties in the country.

Michelle Kerns will serve as superintendent of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. Geological Survey installed one of the nation’s early stream gauging stations on the Colorado River at the head of the Grand Canyon.

The Bureau of Reclamation says low levels and warming water in Lake Powell have led to depleted levels of dissolved oxygen in the water, posing a threat to trout living below Glen Canyon Dam.

Officials at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area are now requiring personal flotation devices to be worn by those using hand-propelled watercraft on the stretch of Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry.