Big Water is located in the center of the Grand Circle which includes Zion National Park, Bryce National Park, The Grand Canyon North and South Rim, and borders on The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and the Glen Canyon National Recreation area. Just 6 miles from the Utah Arizona border
Stunning views in all direction including […]

First off: There is a meeting scheduled in Big Water, Utah at Town Hall on April 3, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. (Mountain Daylight Time - not AZ time) with the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
This is one of several meetings going on the week of March 31st to inform the public of the status of […]

I’ve been attending Arizona Real Estate Licensing School in Sedona. Now, if a person has to go to 90 hours of school, it might as well be in Sedona! On Sunday there was a blizzard which lead to a 139 car pile up in Flagstaff and Sedona received hail, snow, thunder and lightening from the […]

On Friday the good news started hitting the papers. It was a SUCCESS!!
The general thought is that this flood is all about the endangered fishies. It is, no doubt, but in my book it is also about the sustainable habitat downstream that has been created by the dam, as well as us wee humans enjoyment […]

As important a landmark as buying a home is in people’s lives, you’d be surprised at how much of it can turn on snap decisions. If you’re selling a house you’ll have to put careful thought into customers’ first impressions, because many sales will be made or lost before they reach the front door – […]

No pun intended. Driving though Big Water has changed notably in the last few months. The new 55 mile per hour signs up are a welcome relief to many people on both sides of the Utah/Arizona border.
This is a story with a long history of local residents and elected officials attempting to have the […]

For the past several weeks I’ve been making the 57 mile journey to Kanab from Big Water a couple of times a week. Driving by the Cottonwood Canyon road entrance it is obvious there is major construction work going on. On Thursday, coming back from Kanab, I was behind a large, side dump semi-truck hauling […]

Seven of the last eight years the water flowing into Lake Powell from the Colorado River, and upper basin tributaries, has been in the state of drought. 2002 saw only 25% of average inflow in to the lake. Average is such a misleading word when used in describing events in the desert. Not much average […]

Last week, President Bush signed into law a $152 billion economic stimulus bill that includes temporary increases in loan limits for the government sponsored enterprises ie. Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and FHA until December 31. In order to help sort all of this out Realtor.Org has put up a page explaining the new loan limits […]

I spent the afternoon checking out the habitat beach building experimental flows from Glen Canyon Dam. The sheer power of the water is awesome. Standing behind the Carl Hayden Visitor Center at the dam the noise of the water floats up the canyon wall. 300,000 gallons of water a second hitting the Colorado River makes […]