Grand Canyon Parks and Outdoors Travel Guide

For many, the Grand Canyon views alone are worth the price of admission. But adventurers shouldn't be satisfied with mere looking. Hiking down below the rim, float through the Colorado River's alternating series of hair-raising rapids and cathedral-still quiet water, or marvel at the touch of two-billion-year-old rock under your fingers.
The North Rim features a 23-mile scenic drive to Cape Royal featuring one of the best views in the canyon, especially at sunset. Be sure to stop at Angel's Window, where you will have a view of the Colorado River. Near the Walhalla overlook are the ruins of an Ancestral Puebloan structure.
Inside the park on the South Rim are two campgrounds. Mather Campground in Grand Canyon Village has more than 300 campsites. Desert View Campground is 26 miles east of Grand Canyon Village; there are 50 sites available. The North Rim Campground is located north of Grand Canyon Lodge and has 75 campsites. More camping options are located just outside the park.
The Hualapai Tribe offers a Native American perspective to a Grand Canyon trip that you will not find on other commercial tours. The Hualapai require a permit to travel on tribal lands, but if you and your group are on a tour, there is no need for the permit. Also run by the Hualapai tribe, the West Rim now includes the Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped glass bridge suspended 4,000 feet over the Colorado River and canyon.
Near Vermillion Cliffs west from the town of Marble Canyon, you may catch a glimpse of the California condor, an endangered species that was reintroduced to the area in the winter of 1996-1997. Peregrine falcons nest in the canyons along the cliffs as well.

Grand Canyon National Park

The Grand Canyon has been touted as the Eighth Wonder of the World ever since John Wesley Powell braved the raging whitewater in its depths in 1869. It's inarguably the most overexposed icon of the American landscape—every year, approximately five million people come to gawk into the abyss, and you have to wonder if the millions of rolls of film shot here through the generations might come close to filling the canyon from river to rim. Read More

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is vegas better to stay &visit the canyon or are their other places in nevada
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Transportation Is there transportation to the S. Rim Grand CAnyon from Las Vegas. We will also b e traveling to Bryce Canyon as well. We are backpacking around the country and dont have a car.
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Grand Canyon Parks and Outdoors Travel Guide