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Grand Canyon National Park requires a Backcountry Permit for all campers who wish to stay at the Tuweep Campground. The Tuweep Campground is the only campground located at the North Rim’s most remote viewpoint: Toroweap Overlook. The campground has ten campsites: Nine family campsites that each accommodate two vehicles and six people, and One large…

So you just drove up from Phoenix and it has taken you about 3 ½ hours to get to the south rim of the  Grand Canyon. Stopping at the National Park check-point, you pay your $25 vehicle fee and wind around the small road till you get to Bright Angel Lodge and look-out. Park, climb…

An Insider-Tip from GrandCanyon.com Lean in closer…we have a great insider tip for you! Do you want to skip the long line of cars, RVs, buses and motorcycles lined to see the National Park  during the summertime tourist season? You can avoid these tedious lines by doing one of the three options: East Side Entrance:…

There are many ways to see and experience the wonder of the Grand Canyon if you use a wheelchair or walker and in each region – South, North, East and West, there are tours, hotels, trails and viewing areas that assist those in a wheelchair or the slower visitors. As you begin your planning, we…

  Karlyn: There are really only 2 places for a 1 day Hiking & Kayaking experience can take place near the Grand Canyon.    #1 –  is Glen Canyon below Glen Canyon Dam…which I did this last Friday…it was awesome!   Here at Glen Canyon you can go directly to Kayak The Colorado now and they…

Left in its natural state, the American West would have been very different from what it is now.  Instead of fertile farmland, barren desert would dominate the landscape; prosperous cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas would not exist.  Breaking up the long dry spells would be the occasional and often disastrous flood,…

The 79th Annual Easter Sunrise Service will be held at Mather Point at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon this Sunday April 20th. Easter Sunrise Service on the South Rim has been a tradition since 1935. Millions of Americans experienced the Grand Canyon Easter Sunrise Service through their radios in the past. It is…

This morning on TripAdvisor the “$64,000 question” had to do with congestion in Grand Canyon Park Village at the South Rim. This poster, who was planning on making a Grand Canyon day trip from Flagstaff, had obviously heard and perhaps experienced first-hand some of the horror stories of years past, like hour+ waits at the…

Reading that last post (The Grand Canyon Train: the “right track” for your Grand Canyon vacation”), I though to myself, “hmm, it’s almost as though you’re trying to talk people out of taking the Grand Canyon Railway. ” Nothing could be further from the truth! But after 25+ years in the Grand Canyon tour industry,…

Imagine sitting on a hotel balcony at Grand Canyon South Rim sipping your favorite beverage. Before you in all its glory gapes the one and only Grand Canyon! All this beauty is making you hungry, so you leave behind your lovely Grand Canyon view and adjourn to your room and cook a little something in…