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fishmanlee said:
Can someone please tell me what canyon this picture is from. I've been trying to figure it out forever!
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Reflection Canyon…. Also shown on some older maps as Cottonwood Gulch…..

For more about the confusing history behind the name “Refection Canyon," here’s a thread…

JFRCalifornia

Thread 'Reflecting on the Naming of Reflection Canyon'

Times change. Sources of information change. Places change. Names change, too. Cathedral in the Desert was named by a Panguitch rancher’s wife in the 1920s, long before there was much thought given to Glen Canyon as a place to visit, and four decades before there was a Lake Powell. Many of the names of now iconic canyons were named by river runners in the 1940s and 50s, people who knew Glen Canyon before the dam. Some of those names have changed since then.

Like Reflection Canyon. That was not the original name of the canyon, nor is it really the correct name, even now. But how its name...
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JFRCalifornia said:
Reflection Canyon…. Also shown on some older maps as Cottonwood Gulch…..

For more about the confusing history behind the name “Refection Canyon," here’s a thread…

JFRCalifornia

Thread 'Reflecting on the Naming of Reflection Canyon'

Times change. Sources of information change. Places change. Names change, too. Cathedral in the Desert was named by a Panguitch rancher’s wife in the 1920s, long before there was much thought given to Glen Canyon as a place to visit, and four decades before there was a Lake Powell. Many of the names of now iconic canyons were named by river runners in the 1940s and 50s, people who knew Glen Canyon before the dam. Some of those names have changed since then.

Like Reflection Canyon. That was not the original name of the canyon, nor is it really the correct name, even now. But how its name...
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Thank you. I found it on the map and it's basically opposite San Juan. I've never been further south than Escalante as we travel out of Bullfrog daily. This year we'll be camping in Escalante so the trip from there is WAY manageable. Enough water in there right now I wonder?
 
We were in reflection canyon last week, full of algae blooms….neon green most of the canyon. There was a houseboat parked right in the middle of it…..seemed like a risky week of vacation. Almost had a close up encounter with a wave runner….they run in there at 40mph, with no visibility around the corner.
 
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