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Over the years, Lower Antelope Canyon has become a favorite gathering place for photographers, tourists, and visitors from around the world. The views in Lower Antelope Canyon change constantly. @ All copyright 2021, Antelope Canyon Tours & Tickets Reserved Sign In Upperantelope.com® offers Antelope Canyon Tours of both Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons in Page, Arizona and one day tours.

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The American Southwest is the “canyon capital of the world,” from the vast, massive Grand Canyon, to canyons so narrow, even the slenderest of people would be challenged to squeeze through some of them. It is in this latter category where you’ll find Page, AZ’s world-famous Antelope Canyon.

Antelope Canyon is an example of a geological curiosity known as a “slot canyon.” As the name suggests, slot canyons are tiny canyons formed when water finds its way into a crack or fissure in the bedrock. Occurring largely in deserts or areas with low rainfall, a slot canyon is the result of thousands of years of weather extremes. In the case of Antelope Canyon, an intermittent creek that now empties into the Colorado River would erupt in turbulent flash floods that wore away the sandstone rock face, followed by hot, dry periods where sandstorms buffed the canyon walls to a striated, swirled finish. Over time, these weather patterns lessened in severity, but this natural process of erosion continues to be a part of Antelope Canyon’s ongoing evolution.

Accounts of how Antelope Canyon was first discovered vary. One of the more widely circulated versions asserts that around the time of the Great Depression, a Navajo girl was herding livestock on her family’s ancestral lands near what is now Page, Arizona. Along the way, she wandered into a “crack” in a sandstone wall where the outside world fell silent, and divine rays of light illuminated the sculpted chambers of the cave-like formation through a gap in the roof. Some elders of the Navajo tribe maintain that “Long Walk” holdouts took refuge in Antelope Canyon in the late 1800’s, and that spiritual beings continue to keep watch over the area.

The most famous section of Antelope Canyon is Upper Antelope Canyon. A mere 100 yards in length, it sees hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, yet represents only a small section of Antelope Canyon. Its longer counterpart, Lower Antelope Canyon, sees slightly less people due to its physical challenges, but has become just as popular as Upper Antelope Canyon in recent years. In reality, Antelope Canyon is a complex, multi-faceted eco-system with multiple drainages funneling water into what is now Lake Powell, such as:

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Slot canyons in the Page, AZ, area are located on Navajo Indian Tribal Lands, therefore, a guided tour is required to enter them, but no vacation to Northern Arizona would be complete without a visit to at least one. To fully appreciate complexity of these unique geological formations, and the power of the natural forces that created them, consider bundling your Antelope Slot Canyon tour with a boat tour of the canyon’s waterside from Antelope Point Marina.

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Cruise Up Lake Powell

At Antelope Point Marina, you’ll check in at the tour boat desk at the top of the hill. Wait a minute, hill? What hill? There’s a hill? Relax, guest service attendants are standing by to give you a lift to the boat dock, where you’ll board an open-air tour boat and cruise up one of Lake Powell’s most beautiful side canyons. Towering sandstone walls rise above you, decorated in chocolate brown patina by millions of years of monsoon rains. Azure waters lap at the canyon walls as they come closer and closer together with each passing minute, until you can travel no further! Finally, you make the connection: this is where the very waters that carved Antelope Canyon complete their journey, joining with this immense reservoir that supplies life-giving water to millions of residents of the American Southwest. You had no idea that Antelope Canyon was this complex, and played such an important role in the Glen Canyon ecosystem, until you saw it from two very different perspectives.

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After your Coast Guard-certified captain turns your tour boat around and drops you off back at the tour boat dock, you are welcome to linger at the Antelope Point Marina complex for as long as you wish. Grab lunch or a cocktail with a lakeside view at the marina restaurant, or pick up a memento of your visit for yourself or loved ones back home. Marvel at the state-of-the-art houseboats docked at the marina, or simply enjoy the sunshine and jaw-dropping scenery all around you. When you are ready to head back to the parking lot, simply ring for a guest service attendant, and a golf cart will be there to collect you in no time flat.