New marina village on Lake Powell features floating restaurants and shops

Lake Powell visitors and boaters can chart a course for an unusual new marina village, complete with floating restaurant, lounge and retail shop.

The Antelope Point Marina Village, about the size of two football fields, will hold grand opening festivities June 7 to 9 at the facility, which is in northern Arizona just outside Page.

The Marina Village is unique because it sits atop the largest floating platform of its type in the world, said marina spokeswoman Karie Stupek. It is part of an $80-million marina developed within the Navajo Nation on the southwest shores of Lake Powell. “It was built on land of concrete and steel and then moved to the water. It floats on Styrofoam,” she said.

The Antelope Point Marina will join Aramark marinas on the lake, which is part of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 1.2-million-acre region that stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah.

Antelope Point rents houseboats and provides other marine services and amenities. Boats range in size from 59 feet ($7,495 for seven-day rental during summer) to 75 feet ($12,995 for seven-day rental during summer). The houseboats have flat screen TVS, satellite TV, onboard gas barbecues, wet bars and canopied decks.

The grand opening schedule at the marine includes a daylong event on June 9 with Navajo cultural entertainment, live music, houseboat tours and fireworks. For marina information see the website, www.antelopepointlakepowell.com or call (928) 645-5900.