Lees Ferry

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.

A new study by university and government researchers identifies a second-century drought unmatched in severity by the current drought or previously identified droughts in the upper Colorado River Basin.

KNAU has been honored with two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in journalism. The newsroom won for Excellence in Writing and Sports Reporting.

Fire managers with Grand Canyon National Park plan to initiate a prescribed burn Tuesday downriver from Lees Ferry along the Colorado River. Ignitions are planned on about 5 acres of the Paria Beach Riparian Restoration project, a little over a mile downriver from the Lees Ferry boat ramp.