PrincessInOz
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Finishing Unfinished Business in Page
Page, Arizona is not the sort of destination that most international tourists to the US would head to, right? Afterall, with a population of around 7,500 its not one of the global cities of the world. But believe it or not, close on 3 million people visit Page annually.
That's a staggering amount of people considering that the town was founded in 1957 originally as a camp for workers. Camp Page, as it was first known was land acquired in a trade with the Navajo Nation as home to the hundreds of construction workers who would build the second largest dam at Glen Canyon. The city was named after the Commissioner John C Page. You'll find it right along the edge of the Arizona-Utah border. Even the Federal Government considers it the most remote community in the US.
DH and I had stumbled across Page in 1997, when we were driving around the Grand Circle. In the days before the WWW, we pretty much got in the car at Vegas, pointed in the direction of Gods Country of Zion, Bryce, Kodachrome, Escalante and kept going without any research or need to pre-book accommodation. As anyone who has driven the Grand Circle can attest, Page is about the largest community you'll find around this part of the world. If you check it out, youll find that it is located exactly in the center of the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Escalante, Vermillion Caves, Arches, Mesa Verda and Canyon de Chelly.
More importantly, when that dam was built, the waterway above the dam formed a man-made lake known as Lake Powell. In 2013, Lake Powell was named by Fodor Travel as one of the top 20 lakes in the world.
In 1997, without any knowledge of the place, we made a very fleeting visit and we have always felt that we have unfinished business with Page. Its been well over 15 years and that unfinished business between Page, DH and I could have been left unfinished for another 15 years if it weren't for the fact that we could experience the Colorado River from the bottom up. So whilst we had ticked off something on our bucket list yesterday, today.....today, we were going to address our unfinished business.
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Finishing Unfinished Business in Page
Page, Arizona is not the sort of destination that most international tourists to the US would head to, right? Afterall, with a population of around 7,500 its not one of the global cities of the world. But believe it or not, close on 3 million people visit Page annually.
That's a staggering amount of people considering that the town was founded in 1957 originally as a camp for workers. Camp Page, as it was first known was land acquired in a trade with the Navajo Nation as home to the hundreds of construction workers who would build the second largest dam at Glen Canyon. The city was named after the Commissioner John C Page. You'll find it right along the edge of the Arizona-Utah border. Even the Federal Government considers it the most remote community in the US.
DH and I had stumbled across Page in 1997, when we were driving around the Grand Circle. In the days before the WWW, we pretty much got in the car at Vegas, pointed in the direction of Gods Country of Zion, Bryce, Kodachrome, Escalante and kept going without any research or need to pre-book accommodation. As anyone who has driven the Grand Circle can attest, Page is about the largest community you'll find around this part of the world. If you check it out, youll find that it is located exactly in the center of the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Escalante, Vermillion Caves, Arches, Mesa Verda and Canyon de Chelly.
More importantly, when that dam was built, the waterway above the dam formed a man-made lake known as Lake Powell. In 2013, Lake Powell was named by Fodor Travel as one of the top 20 lakes in the world.
In 1997, without any knowledge of the place, we made a very fleeting visit and we have always felt that we have unfinished business with Page. Its been well over 15 years and that unfinished business between Page, DH and I could have been left unfinished for another 15 years if it weren't for the fact that we could experience the Colorado River from the bottom up. So whilst we had ticked off something on our bucket list yesterday, today.....today, we were going to address our unfinished business.
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but oh the joy of seeing it through your eyes 
How about I keep posting and let you work out if I can top Slot Canyon #2 or not?? 
