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Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on May 22nd, 2011
Share Dear Arizona Travel: Are the North Rim campsites open through the month of October, so we can reserve them on June 1st? Thanks, Dania S. Hello, Dania! The North Rim closes in mid-October every year. After mid-October, weather permitting, a limited number of campsites at the North Rim Campground with limited services (portable toilets) [...]
Posted in Arizona, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon on Mar 9th, 2011
Share Today, we kick off a series we’re calling Back(pack) to Basics series with a general guide to the Grand Canyon. We’ll answer all the basic questions about visiting the Grand Canyon in a lightweight, easy-to-carry guide you can stuff in your “backpack” of web resources and maybe even visit this Natural Wonder of the [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on May 15th, 2009
Share The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park opened for the season on May 15, 2009. All National Park Service visitor facilities and services are open. Grand Canyon Lodge North Rim, a Forever Resorts property and Grand Canyon Trail Rides also commenced their season operations on May 15. At noon on October 16, 2009 [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon, Sedona on Jan 28th, 2008
Share While it might not be any surprise that the South Rim of the Grand Canyon receives the lion’s share of the 5 million visitors to the National Park each year, you might not realize that lodging options are not limited to the Grand Canyon National Park lodges inside the south rim of the park. [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on Oct 17th, 2006
Share After two years of fundraising and two months of training, Girl Scout Troop 119 from St. James Lutheran Church in Quincy recently returned from hiking the Grand Canyon with a sense of accomplishment. Assistant troop leader Barbara O’Dear, who has been training athletes for years, knew it would not be easy to train 12- [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on Aug 29th, 2006
Share The straight-line distance from the north to the south rims of the Grand Canyon is about 10 miles. By road, it’s a 5 1/2 hour, 220 mile drive. On foot, it’s just about a marathon – 25 miles, give or take – with around 10,000 feet of elevation change. In what can be brutal [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on Aug 22nd, 2006
Share Fire conditions within Grand Canyon National Park have moderated with increased precipitation and the onset of monsoons. In the last few weeks, fire danger has gone from extreme down to high. The improved conditions allow fire managers at Grand Canyon National Park to lift fire restrictions on the South and North Rims of Grand [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on Jun 12th, 2006
Share A veteran picks his 7 favorites west of the Divide Arizona: Crossing the Canyon Over the years, I’ve spent hundreds of days exploring Arizona’s Grand Canyon. I’m convinced that while the view from the top can be stunning, the best way to appreciate the canyon’s grandness is to walk across it. The easiest traverse [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on Jun 2nd, 2006
Share Leaving the Jacob Lake campground on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend for a dispersed site on the Kaibab National Forest felt strangely disconcerting. Try as I might to allow a rebellious streak to emerge, I have always been a color-inside-the-lines, stay-on-the-trail, follow-all-of-the-rules kind of guy. I almost always go to church on Sunday [...]
Posted in Arizona, Grand Canyon on May 30th, 2006
Share Photo source: http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery-AngelWindow.htm Where do you get the best views of the Grand Canyon? The North Rim? The South Rim? Admittedly, it’s a subjective decision, but the South Rim gets my vote. That comes after making my first trip to the still-impressive North Rim. I had visited the South Rim about 15 years ago. [...]
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