Lake Powell (Prt 1)

UNREAL! As lake life lovers, this has always been a dream destination - Don’t even know how to start this recap, so let’s try to break it down:

• Timeline: September 2023, 4 days and 3 nights. Weather was low 90’s during the day and 70’s at night. Pretty ideal weather.

• Travel: Drive from Phoenix area is ~4.5 hrs with the Grand Canyon as stopping point on the way!

• Stay: Airbnb in Page, AZ. To be noted, Page has minimal commercial dinning/shopping - there is the local BBQ Joint, Big John’s, that slaps and Grand Canyon Brewery and Distillery for the local flavors. It also borders Utah which is a time zone ahead, given that Arizona doesn’t do day light savings. Be prepared to never know what time it truly is.

• Activities (thanks to Michele’s itinerary, home girl mapped out a solid game plan that left no activity behind)

  • Antelope Canyon - the famous slot canyons! You are required to have a guided tour since the canyon is on Navajo Land. Reservations do book up so certainly something to plan in advanced. They are also relatively strict given the sacredness of the land which Michele found out after getting in trouble with our tour guide for her flash photography lol.

  • ATV Rentals - drove about an hour north into Utah to rent ATVs for the afternoon and rip though the sand dunes! We walked away looking like the Sand Man himself.

  • Horseshoe Bend - another famous viewpoint. It’s actually not okay how there are no railings, you can walk right up to the edge on the canyon to the Colorado River way below.

  • Surf’s Up Lake Powell - cannot recommend a day with Captain Mike enough, he gave us a day on the water that was all time. We charted a wake-boat with him for a full day which included rock jumping, wake surfing, wakeboarding, swim breaks, and sightseeing around the Lake. Mike (Rachel’s bro in-law) getting to wakeboard with this beyond epic backdrop of canyon and red rock was a full bucket list moment.

  • Jet ski rentals - allowed us to zip through the slot canyons. I think we can all agree that our a**es were killing us after a couple hours. The “highway” as it’s referred to is one section of the lake that is the roughest because the waves get caught bouncing off the canyon walls.

Nothing quite like being somewhere so remote that the Milky Way comes out a night. Safe to say, WE LOVE LAKE POWELL !