Flaming Gorge UT (#0045)

Yup! IIRC the dam was completed in 1963, right toward the end of the great era of dam-building, when they were still Symbols of Progress. Flaming Gorge also didn't get the attention that (say) Yampa or even Glen Canyon got, tho it was certainly scenic in its own right. There was little protest at its flooding.

On my first cross-country drive in 1967 (on the way to my next duty post in Monterey), we passed north of it and were somehow aware that it had been an area of protest. That memory of it as being politically questionable has stuck in my mind ever since, which is one reason I wanted to see it.

Interesting--IIRC Marc Reisner said, in _Cadillac Desert_, that the sea change in public attitudes toward big dams came in the mid-60s, with the reaction to the proposals for dams in the Grand Canyon (at Marble Canyon and Bridge Canyon, to be exact). But presumably opposition was an actively growing minority opinion before that--

Haven't been on that side of the dam. Here's a view looking back east, from off the highway toward Manila:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/23516933
That's also a route worth taking if you get a chance

That's a wonderful view from your photograph. I had intended to come down the Manila side, but was running short of time, will be another visit.