Aerial view of Lake Powell, near Page, Arizona.
The lake is a reservoir, created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, straddles the border between Arizona and Utah. It is a popular recreation and vacation spot visited by an estimated two million people annually. Powell is the second-largest manmade reservoir by maximum water capacity in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet of water when full. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.