Where Ancient Stone Meets the Open Water

There are places on Earth where the scale of things - the age of the rock, the reach of the water, the arc of the sky - quietly reorders your sense of what is large and what is small. Lake Powell is one of them. Stretched across nearly 2,000 miles of shoreline between northern Arizona and southern Utah, it is a landscape of staggering scale carved from some of the oldest geology on the continent. As America marks 250 years, Aramark Destinations invites you to experience it from the water, on the rim, and beneath a sky so full of stars that distances between them become something you can almost feel.

Lake Powell Resort & Marina, the authorized concessioner of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, is your gateway to 96 canyons, one extraordinary lake, and a legacy that stretches back far beyond any nation’s founding.

Glen Canyon: 96 Canyons, One Living Landmark

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area encompasses 1.25 million acres of high desert canyon country straddling the Arizona-Utah border, a landscape of Navajo Sandstone sculpted over millions of years by wind, water, and time. The Ancestral Puebloans, Navajo, Paiute, Ute, Zuni, and Hopi peoples have lived, traveled, and held this land sacred for centuries beyond counting. The canyon walls, petroglyphs, and ancient dwelling sites they left behind are as much a part of this landmark as the water itself.

Lake Powell, formed by the completion of Glen Canyon Dam in 1966, transformed the canyon landscape into one of the most remarkable freshwater destinations in the American West. With 96 side canyons to explore, waters warm enough to swim through spring, summer, and fall, and a clarity that makes the canyon walls seem to glow from beneath the surface, it is a place that rewards every mode of exploration: by houseboat, powerboat, paddleboard, or foot.

Experience History in New Ways

• Guided interpretive tours and legacy experiences
• Special events and commemorative celebrations
• Property-specific stories and milestone moments
• Culinary and retail offerings inspired by local destinations
• Immersive content revealing the past, present, and future of each place

Our Promise to These Places, and to You

Landmarks of Legacy connects our destinations through three shared commitments.

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Caring for What Endures: Lake Powell Resort & Marina operates as an authorized concessioner of the National Park Service — a responsibility that shapes every decision made here. Stewardship at Lake Powell means managing marina facilities and a full resort operation in ways that protect the canyon ecosystem, supporting the Clean Marine and Leave No Trace programs that keep the water and canyon walls as remarkable for the next visitor as they were for the last, and honoring the sacred relationship that multiple Indigenous nations have maintained with this landscape for centuries. To spend time at Lake Powell is to be part of a place that has required stewardship from every generation that has encountered it.

Every landmark has a voice. The geology of Glen Canyon is a record of time so deep that human history, for all its richness, occupies only its outermost layer. Navajo Sandstone formed from ancient desert dunes 190 million years ago. The Colorado River carved the canyon over five million years. The Ancestral Puebloans sheltered in its alcoves and left petroglyphs that still speak from the canyon walls today. The Navajo, Paiute, Ute, Zuni, and Hopi peoples carry living relationships with this land that predate and transcend the Recreation Area itself. And Lake Powell’s own modern history — the dam, the reservoir, the ongoing negotiation between water supply, recreation, and ecological health — is one of the defining stories of resource stewardship in the American West. Every boat tour, every hiking trail, every guided experience here is a chance to hear more of it.

Not Spectators. Participants. There is no way to experience Lake Powell remotely. You are in it: on the water, in the canyon light, anchored in a cove where the only sounds are the lake and the wind moving through the sandstone above. Whether you come by houseboat and spend a week drifting through side canyons, or arrive for a long weekend and use the resort as a base for boat tours and rim hikes, the canyon makes the same offer to every visitor: come further in. The guides and crews of Lake Powell Resort & Marina have accepted that invitation themselves, and they bring the knowledge of people who know this place not just professionally but personally.

Give Back to the Places You Love

Through our Round Up program and other philanthropic initiatives, guests can support preservation, education, and community programs near Lake Powell, helping protect the local landscape and the stories it holds. Because honoring legacy also means investing in the future.

Join the Journey

Landmarks of Legacy is more than a campaign. It is a movement across America's most meaningful places — a shared commitment to the destinations that shaped our nation and continue to define who we are. Learn more at landmarksoflegacy.com.