Lake Powell (also known as Glen Canyon) is about a 6 hour drive from Aspen/Basalt. We have been lucky enough to go a few times over the last 15 years but this was the first time we got invited to stay on a houseboat. The houseboats are amazingly luxurious – quite different to the houseboats we rented as college students in Australia! We did take our tent also and I was glad as we actually preferred sleeping in our tent because the houseboat got quite warm at night. Lake Powell has stunning scenery and we had so much fun waterskiing, jetskiing, wakeboarding, surfing behind the boats, tubing, cliffjumping and just enjoying being away from cell phone and internet coverage. There are places with coverage but we were not in them.