The resulting reservoir stretches back 186 miles, filling in all of Glen Canyon with sediment that will persist once the dam is gone. Despite the despoilation of Glen Canyon, Lake Powell is beautiful in its own right. Cold blue water shimmers against red sandstone formations. You will easily understand why Arizona has the nation's highest per capita rate of boat ownership. The area around Page is slot canyon country.
Slot canyons are deep narrow cuts in sandstone plateaus.
All of the sunlight that reaches the bottom has bounced many times off the sandstone walls, each time becoming more red. The Corkscrew is the most easily reached from Page, just a few miles southeast of town on Navajo land. You'll need to hire a Jeep taxi to get down a sandy wash to the canyon. You're only three hours from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at this point and it is on your way back to Flagstaff, so you have to go. The Grand Canyon is anticlimactic for most people.