Bullfrog Marina

Bullfrog Marina offers the widest variety of services on the lake outside of Wahweap. There is a National Park Service visitor center which contains several exhibits relating the geological and human history of Glen Canyon. Books, maps, posters and videos about the area are for sale and personnel are on hand to answer questions. This center is open from 8 am - 5 pm daily from early March through October. It's open Friday, Saturday and Sunday in November and closed December through February.

This same building also houses National Park Service offices for the uplake District and Bullfrog Subdistrict. In addition, a medical clinic operates from this building from May through September. A physician's assistant staffs this facility and provides emergency medical care. NPS medics are on duty year-round. Emergency medical evacuation by helicopter and fixed wing aircraft is available.

The National Park Service also provides a launch ramp, portable toilet dump station, free boat pump-out station, picnic area, fish cleaning station, and paved landing strip for aircraft.

The concessioner, ARAMARK, provides a full complement of visitor services, including: a lodge, housekeeping units, food services, gift shop, grocery store, 2 campgrounds (one with hook-ups), laundry, showers, service station, boat rental, boat tours, and boat repair. There is a post office in Bullfrog.

The State of Utah maintains a regularly scheduled ferry, capable of carrying cars, trucks, rv's and trailers, which runs between Bullfrog and Halls Crossing. This is a fee service and is available on a first come, first served basis. The ferry is occasionally out of service for repairs. If ferry service is crucial to your trip, we recommend you call ahead to verify that it is in service.

Phone Numbers:
National Park Service Information, Bullfrog: (801) 684-7400
National Park Service, Emergency: (800) 582-4351
ARAMARK, Bullfrog: (801) 684-3000
ARAMARK, Toll-free: (800) 528-6154

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Wahweap Marina

Carl Hayden Visitor Center, located next to Glen Canyon Dam, is staffed by the National Park Service and open daily except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. It offers information, films, a relief map, and views of the dam and surrounding landscape from its observation deck. Free dam tours are available daily.

The National Park Service also provides a self-service ranger station at Wahweap, drinking water, restrooms, free boat pump-out stations, picnic area with grills, fish-cleaning station, and ranger programs in the summer.

Wahweap Marina, 5.5 miles (8.9km) from the visitor center along Lakeshore Drive, is operated by ARAMARK, the park concessioner. It provides a variety of services, including: lodging, food services, gift shops, 2 campgrounds (one with hook-ups), laundry, showers, and a service station. Full marina services include: slips, buoys, boat rentals, tours, repairs, dry storage and fueling.

The city of Page, 2 miles (3.2km) from the dam and visitor center, has stores, motels, restaurants, churches, hospital, and museum. Page can be reached by surfaced roads year-round, and by air from Phoenix.

Phone Numbers:
National Park Service Information, Wahweap: (520) 608-6404
National Park Service Emergency: (800) 582-4351
ARAMARK, Wahweap: (520) 645-2433
ARAMARK, Toll Free: (800) 528-6154

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Hall's Crossing Marina

Halls Crossing is the site of a marina on Lake Powell, about 95 (153km) miles upstream from Glen Canyon Dam. The National Park Service maintains a ranger station at Halls Crossing. It also provides a launch ramp and free boat pump-out station.

ARAMARK, the park concessioner, provides many visitor services, including: housekeeping units, grocery store, 2 campgrounds (one with hook-ups), laundry, showers, service station, boat rental, and boat repair. Cal Black Memorial Airport is located approximately 10 miles (16km) east of Halls Crossing.

The State of Utah maintains a regularly scheduled ferry, capable of carrying cars, trucks, rv's and trailers, which runs between Halls Crossing and Bullfrog . This is a fee service and is available on a first come, first served basis. The ferry is occasionally out of service for repairs. If ferry service is crucial to your trip, we recommend you call ahead to verify that it is in service.

Phone Numbers:
National Park Service Information, Halls Crossing: (801) 684-7400
National Park Service, Emergency: (800) 582-4351
ARAMARK, Halls Crossing: (801) 684-7000
ARAMARK, Toll-free: (800) 528-6154

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Hite Marina

Lake Powell has brought new life to Hite. Today, visitors launch power boats from the launch ramp, explore the lake and river canyons, and camp along the shores. A modern highway now crosses the Colorado and Dirty Devil Rivers on steel-girded bridges.

Cass Hite's log cabin, the store, and the post office are gone-- submerged beneath the waters of Lake Powell. New structures have been built, however, providing services and information to the visitor and bringing new life to the once-thriving community of Hite.

Services: Hite offers limited services and access to Lake Powell.

• A general store sells limited groceries, supplies, and fishing licenses. Gasoline, dump station, and public phones are available.
• The ranger station, located adjacent to the store, is open intermittently. Information and maps are available.
• Hite has one launch ramp. At the marina are boat rentals, a store with limited supplies and groceries, fuel dock, and boat pump-out.
• There is no lodge or restaurant at Hite, although there are five rental housekeeping units.
• Primitive camping is available at the parking area near the Hite launch ramp. (Restrooms and water are available at the top of the launch ramp.) Even more primitive camping (pit toilets, no water) is available at Farley Canyon (4.4 miles south on Hwy. 95 from the Hite junction).
• Camping is allowed almost anywhere at Hite, but vehicles must remain on established roads. Be sure to haul out all your trash. Utilize pit toilets or portable toilets. Dump gray water and sewage at the Hite dump station. Pets must be leashed. Firearms (except when legally hunting) and fireworks are illegal.
• The closest town to Hite is Hanksville, which has some lodging, restaurants, and a small store. Medical services are available in Bullfrog and in Blanding, Utah.
• Access to the Orange Cliffs, as well as the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park, can be made from the Waterhole Flat Road near Hite.
• For information on boat rentals and lodging: ARAMARK (801)684-2278
• For general Information: Hite Ranger Station (801)684-2457
• Emergencies only: 1-800-582-435

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Dangling Rope Marina

Dangling Rope Marina, 40 miles (64km) uplake from Glen Canyon Dam, replaces the marina that was formerly in Forbidden Canyon near Rainbow Bridge National Monument. This marina is accessible only by water.

At Dangling Rope, the National Park Service provides a ranger station, restrooms, free boat pump-out station, and emergency communications. During the summer season, interpretive rangers are stationed at nearby Rainbow Bridge National Monument. Rangers from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area patrol Rainbow Bridge National Monument and provide visitor information, even though the monument is a separate unit of the National Park Service and is subject to more stringent regulations regarding visitor use & activities than is Glen Canyon NRA.

ARAMARK, the park concessioner, provides limited services at Dangling Rope, including: boat fuel, minor boat repair, and a supply store including some groceries. This is the only place to get boat fuel between Wahweap and the Halls Crossing/Bullfrog area.

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