Last Updated: May 4, 2026
Page, Arizona sits at the edge of something extraordinary — a small city of roughly 7,000 perched on a mesa above the Colorado River, where the Colorado Plateau meets the Navajo Nation, surrounded by some of the most spectacular canyon country in North America. It was founded in 1957 as a housing community for the workers who built Glen Canyon Dam, and it has served as a gateway to the canyon country ever since. From this single base in April 2018, we reached Lake Powell by boat, walked deep into Lower Antelope Canyon beneath Navajo land, stood at the rim of Horseshoe Bend, and drove to the Colorado River at Lees Ferry where the Grand Canyon begins. We could have spent another week and still not covered everything.
