From scorched desert to sapphire dream 🫧✨

Lake Powell just rewrote my colour palette! If Mother Nature owns an Instagram filter, 💕🌸it’s the impossible turquoise of Powell. Straddling the AZ-UT line, this man-made miracle cradles mile-high sandstone curves around liquid gemstone water. Hot wind brushes your face while you stare at glass-calm surface—time down-shifts to slow-motion 🌿🌅🌵🌿. Locals swear it’s the least “earthly” corner of the Southwest—space-age blue dropped into Mars-red rock. 📍 Lake Powell 101 Entry: Glen Canyon NRA pass = $35 per car ⏳ valid 7 days. Short on time? Drive the rim, pull over at viewpoints, let your retina do the rest. ▫️ Wahweap Viewpoint – sunrise paints the buttes peach & lilac 🌄 ▫️ Wahweap Overlook – elevated balcony for golden-hour fireworks 🌞 ▫️ Navajo Mountain Viewpoint – telephoto Glen Canyon Dam looking like a concrete zipper 🏗️ Bonus side quests (if you can drag yourself away from the blueness): ▫️ Lone Rock Beach – SUV onto sand, pose with house-size rock “guardian” 🏖️🪨 ▫️ Wahweap Window – 40-min hike ends in a rock window framing lake infinity 🖼️ ▫️ Wahweap Marina – rent kayak / SUP / houseboat and paddle into canyon corridors so narrow your echo gets claustrophobic 🛶🤯 Powell pairs perfectly with Antelope Canyon + Horseshoe Bend for the ultimate “red & blue” Arizona-Utah combo platter.🫧🫧 Hashtag your heart out, but nothing captures the moment turquoise water laps against 200-million-year-old sand—pure sci-fi serenity. 🏖️🪨 #LakePowell #EarthButNotEarth #HiddenGem #GlenCanyonGoals