Wahweap is the developed north end of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a few miles from Page, and the swim beach is the only stretch of Wahweap Bay where the Park Service actually designates and marks a place to get in the water. Its location has moved. Through 2022 the beach was west of the Wahweap Main Ramp, but Lake Powell's decline left that site high and dry, and on 30 June 2023 the Park Service opened a replacement across from the Wahweap Campground. Follow the signs off Lakeshore Drive onto a gravel road that runs about half a mile down to a parking lot at the water.

Facilities at the new beach are deliberately minimal: a parking area, a vault toilet, and buoys marking the swimming area. There are no lifeguards, no shade structures, no drinking water and no concession. Swimmers are required to stay inside the marked area. The Park Service recommends life jackets for everyone in the water and requires them for children twelve and under, and swimming is prohibited anywhere in the marinas or near the boat launch ramps, which is the rule the ramp traffic here makes worth respecting.

The water is warm by any reasonable standard. Lake Powell's surface runs into the low 80s through July and August and stays swimmable well into September, which combined with the desert air temperature is the whole appeal. The bottom is sand and silt rather than the slickrock you find in the side canyons, the entry is gradual, and the bay is broad enough that afternoon wind can push a real chop across it. Mornings are calm; by two in the afternoon it is usually blowing.

The beach sits right at the Utah line, a few hundred yards north of the Arizona border, with Page as the gateway town for fuel, groceries and lodging. Entrance to Glen Canyon is by fee, currently thirty dollars per vehicle for seven days, or covered by an America the Beautiful pass, and the same pass covers the campground and day use areas. Wahweap Campground and RV Park, the Stateline launch ramp and the marina are all within a couple of miles.

A word about water levels, because they change what you find here. Lake Powell dropped to roughly a quarter of capacity in early 2023, the lowest since it filled, and although wetter winters since then have brought it partway back, the shoreline still shifts by tens of vertical feet from year to year. That is why the beach moved once and could move again. Check the current Glen Canyon conditions page before you drive out, since ramp and beach closures are announced there first.

Everything else at Wahweap is in view of the beach. Glen Canyon Dam and its bridge are six miles southeast with a visitor center on the rim, Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend are short drives from Page, and Lone Rock Beach, the open camp-on-the-sand area popular with four wheel drives, is a few miles north on the Utah side.