🌴🌵 Dry Rivers, Dead Salmon? Is This America’s Last Great Dam?

After exploring Antelope Canyon 🌄, we ventured to Glen Canyon Dam—a colossal structure that instantly evoked memories of Hoover Dam in disaster sci-fi films. Towering between nature’s wonders, it symbolizes humanity’s struggle against natural forces, often depicted as a battle lost to Mother Earth or alien intelligences. 🌄💭 👀 From afar, the dam’s sheer scale stuns—its concrete walls stretch like a sky-blocking curtain, dwarfing mountain ranges. Yet beyond awe? A hollow beauty. “Is it beautiful?” you ask. Deep down, no. Just raw, unyielding engineering. 🌵💧 🐟 Rumors swirl: the dam disrupted Colorado River flows, silted channels, lowered water levels, and trapped salmon en route to the sea—sparking demolition debates akin to China’s Three Gorges dilemmas. 🌊💦 🌄 What remains: America’s second-largest dam and Lake Powell, its equally grand artificial lake. 🏞️💧 🌵 But here’s the twist: since 1972, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has transformed Page, Arizona—a red-desert town—into a tourism hotspot. It introduced the world to Horseshoe Bend’s grace and the ethereal beauty of Upper/Lower Antelope Canyons. #GlenCanyonDam #LakePowell #DesertWonders 🌴💦