We’re on a cliff roughly 3,500 feet above the Colorado River at the tip of the Great Thumb Mesa, a spectacular formation that thrusts out from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon like the bow of ...
The Grand Canyon is the biggest canyon on earth: 277 miles long, 10 miles wide, and a mile deep. It contains some of the oldest exposed rock on earth, Precambrian Vishnu schist, formed 1.7 billion ...
People travel across the country (and the world) to peer into the canyon without ever stepping foot inside it. In 2023, 4.7 million visitors traveled to Grand Canyon National Park, making it the ...
Such a sentiment explains the appeal of the Grand Canyon Railway, a heritage train that takes people from a historic depot in the Route 66 city of Williams, Arizona, to the Grand Canyon's South Rim.
Trails in Grand Canyon National Park were closed due to a chlorine gas leak. Chlorine is used as a disinfectant in the Roaring Springs area of the park. The trails have since reopened NORTH RIM ...