Padre Bay
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Padre Bay is part of Lake Powell in southern Utah.
Located at mile 19 of Lake Powell, Padre Bay is the largest expanse of open water on the man made lake. Padre Bay is connected to Gunsight Butte during high water periods, as well as the Cookie Jar butte. Nearby hiking attractions are the "weathering pits," perfectly round depressions that range between 10 to 50 feet in diameter and are between 20 and 70 feet deep.
Padre Bay is named for a famous low water crossing of the Colorado River, now under several hundred feet of water. A group of ten men, lead by the priests Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and his superior Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, were in route home from a failed attempt to find an overland trail to Monterey, California. They first attempted to cross the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry in Arizona.
Similar location names are South Padre Island in Texas (USA), and Puerto Padre in the Las Tunas province of Cuba.
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