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Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam

86040 Page, AZ, United States of America (USA) (Arizona)
Address Highway 89
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ
Electric motors/generators/pumps

Opening times
 Daily: 9am – 5pm
see website for closures & seasonal exceptions.

Admission
Status from 09/2023
 Tours of the Glen Canyon Dam are closed.
Contact
Tel.:+1-928-640-39 00   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm
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Location / Directions
N36.935949° W111.486442°N36°56.15694' W111°29.18652'N36°56'9.4164" W111°29'11.1912"
Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.

Highway 89, on west side of Glen Canyon Dam.
Description

Wikipedia:
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River.
The 710-foot (220 m) high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of 27 million acre feet (33 km3).

Power generation

The other principal goal of Glen Canyon Dam is hydroelectricity generation. It is the second-biggest producer of hydroelectric power in the Southwestern United States, after Hoover Dam.

The dam also serves as a primary peaking power plant and black start power source for the Southwest electrical grid.[71][134] The power plant has a total capacity of 1,320 megawatts from eight 165,000 kilowatt generators. Each generator is driven by a 254,000 horsepower vertical-axis Francis turbine. The gross hydraulic head is 510 feet (160 m).[5] The units were installed between September 1964 and February 1966 at an original rating of 950 megawatts; an upgrade project between 1985 and 1997 brought it to its present capacity.

Carl Hayden Visitor Center Attractions

Tours of the dam (currently closed), exhibits, video shows, a relief map of the entire Glen Canyon area. Restrooms and a bookstore. 

Tours of the dam (currently closed): As a federal power plant facility, security measures are in place. While no bags, purses, knives, weapons, or food are allowed on the tour, wallets, cameras, and clear water bottles are welcome.
 
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