During my 2007 Utah road trip, I spent a few days in Page, AZ. Just east of Page on Navajo Nation lands is Antelope Canyon, a Navajo Nation Park. Here a narrow, winding slot canyon has been carved into the sandstone rock just above what is now Lake Powell. I visited Upper Antelope Canyon in 2004, so this time I visited the lower canyon, which is deeper and more extensive.

For the most part, the canyon is a marvel of rock and light, the sandstone worn into a corkscrew canyon by a succession of flash floods. With all the different ... (more)