Padres Butte
Padres Butte is a butte near the tip of Padre Point on the south shore of Lake Powell in San Juan County, Utah. The summit of the butte has an elevation of. It was formerly an island in the man-made lake, but land connecting the butte with the rest of Padre Point has been exposed as the lake's water levels have declined.
Padres Butte marks the site of the historical Crossing of the Fathers, a series of sand bars along the great bend in the Colorado River a mile west of the butte that once offered a fordable crossing of the river.
