Biking Page, Arizona's Rim View Trail
Page, Arizona, sits atop a mesa overlooking Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell, and as the map denotes, the Rim View Trail (in white) encircles the city, generally carved out on a shelf just below the rim of the mesa, with homes, businesses, a college, and a golf course perched just above it on the rim's edge. The blue is Lake Powell and the land to the right (east) of the trail is the Navaho Reservation. The trail has intermittent markers, but some route finding is needed on occasion. When in doubt, look for the bike tire tracks and follow them. Warning: I got a flat tire as I finished my ride, so carry a spare tube.
This shows part of my favorite section which runs from Lake Powell Blvd. just below the Quality Inn (across from McDonalds) around to Lake Powell Blvd. near Aspen St. (across from the college). The trail is mostly shelf with sheer dropoffs and offers excellent views of Glen Canyon Dam, the Highway 89 bridge, the fissure which contains the Colorado River downriver from the dam, a country club, and various stores. The trail is mostly clay with some areas of slickrock and some of loose sand, and is probably about 15 miles in length when the top loop is included.
The extra loop of trail shown at the top of the map (closest to Lake Powell) is called the Discovery Tail and encircles a hilltop, with extra tracks cutting through the center and leading up and over the hilltop. In this photo taken from there, the dam is around the bend to the left at the middle-left of the photo. Lake Powell as seen here is 97 feet below normal level due to a multi-year drought, and the white rocks (covered with calcium carbonate) have been under water for decades. Hence, you would normally see far more blue water and the channel would be much larger than seen here.
The eastern leg of the trail borders the Navaho Reservation and gives distant views of mountains and the Navaho Generating Station to the east. The trail is again on a shelf below the rim and zigzags around water runoff canyons as seen above where the trail turns left and then back to the right. The airport property is to the left up on the rim and has a service road along its fence line which I mistakenly thought was the trail my first time around the loop, but it is in bad shape and the actual trail is far superior.