Just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend, a popular swimming hole on Lake Powell known as the “sweet spot” lost some of its appeal this week after two cows had become stuck in the mud near there and were euthanized.
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area closed the cove near Lone Rock Beach to swimming Thursday after it was “deemed unsafe for recreational activities due to potential exposure to decaying cattle carcasses,” the park said in a news release.
The spot, near a beach known for dispersed camping, is on Wahweap Bay in southern Utah just north of the Arizona line off U.