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Golden Cathedral. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (shortened to Glen Canyon NRA or GCNRA) is a national recreation area and conservation unit of the United States National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract Canyon in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres (5,076.49 km 2) of mostly rugged high desert terrain.
The impressive structure that long drew visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah collapsed last Thursday, the National Park Service announced a day later. ... Wall Arch, a ...
Double Arch, a frequently visited geologic feature in Glen Canyon’s Rock Creek Bay, gave way to the elements on Thursday, the National Park Service says. No one was injured as a result of the ...
A frequently visited arch collapsed in Rock Creek Bay in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah, the National Park Service reported Friday in a news release.
The bridge, which is of cultural importance to a number of area Native American tribes, has been designated a Traditional Cultural Property by the National Park Service. Rainbow Bridge National Monument was protected in 1910, and it is administered by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The Park, Parkway, and Recreation Area Study Act of 1936 [8] had the NPS analyze the needs for outdoor recreation and collaborate with state and local governments, [5] officially expanding its mission beyond national parks. With skepticism remaining among agency veterans, planning at the area still emphasized scenery and preservation.
The Navajo Sandstone is particularly prominent in southern Utah, where it forms the main attractions of a number of national parks and monuments including Arches National Park, Zion National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Canyonlands National Park, [3] Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, [4] and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument.
Around 1956, archaeologists and biologists from the University of Utah and the Museum of Northern Arizona including Gene Field Foster, using National Park research grants, planned an emergency survey of Glen Canyon, which was soon to be flooded by the new Glen Canyon Dam. Between 1958 and 1960, four investigative phases, combined with other ...