Cape Royal, a gorgeous peninsula that juts out over the canyon from the North Rim, provides perhaps the most striking vistas of all the Grand Canyon. The 1.6-km Cape Royal Trail meanders past the ...

As the sun dipped low to the southwest of the Grand ... North Rim, a ranger persuaded him to lug his 250-pound digital acoustic hybrid piano to Cape Royal, a promontory overlooking the canyon.

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...