Lake Powell

From the Horshoe Bend we drove up to the Powell Dam, the second largest dam in the US. It was built in the fifties to ensure the distribution of the water in the surrounding states. Page, the town we stayed at, was originally built for the workers at the construction.
We went to the visitor center, where we watched a movie about the construction of the dam. We learned some crazy facts about the dam (it took 17 years to completely fill the lake, the dam consists of 4 million tons of concrete and so on). After that we went to the lake, which had a very long and sandy shore. Sadly, the water level is very low right now. We saw some people swimming and making a barbecue at the lake, we chose to walk around only.
It started raining in the afternoon, so we couldn't not do another hike, so we went to Walmart, to check out some crazy Christmas stuff there.Weiterlesen