Grand Canyon Skywalk Tickets: Prices, Hours & How to Buy (2026)

A Grand Canyon Skywalk ticket costs $113.85 per person, all in. There is no Skywalk-only ticket any more: walking the glass bridge is included with the Grand Canyon West All-Access Pass, or with the cheaper Sunset Pass at $67.85 if you arrive after 3:00 PM. Grand Canyon West lists the All-Access Pass at $99. Booked here, $113.85 is the total you pay.

Below: every pass that gets you onto the glass, what each one includes, and how to book.

Grand Canyon Skywalk ticket prices in 2026

Four of the five passes below include the Skywalk. General Admission is the one that doesn’t, and it’s the one people buy by mistake.

Every price in the second column is the all-in total charged per person when you book here. The third is Grand Canyon West’s own advertised price. 

Who you’re booking with

You can buy at the park, from Grand Canyon West directly, or here. We’re an independent booking partner, not Grand Canyon West itself: your pass is issued through the operator’s own ticketing system, and the price you see is the total you pay.

Full detail on each pass: the Grand Canyon West All-Access Pass and the Sunset Pass each have their own page.

Is there a separate West Rim entrance fee?

No. Admission to Grand Canyon West is the pass. There’s no gate fee stacked on top, and parking at the main terminal and the shuttle between viewpoints are both included.

What trips people up is the pass they already own. Grand Canyon West answers it directly: “No. Grand Canyon West is an enterprise of the Hualapai Tribe and is not affiliated with Grand Canyon National Park.” If you’re driving out with an America the Beautiful pass in the glovebox, budget for admission anyway. More on arrival at the Grand Canyon West entrance.

There is no standalone Skywalk ticket

Most of the internet still gets this wrong. You cannot buy a ticket that only gets you onto the glass bridge. Grand Canyon West says so directly:

“Access to the Skywalk is included with the purchase of the All Access Pass at Grand Canyon West. There is no additional fee to visit the Skywalk once you have the pass.” — Grand Canyon West

So there are exactly two ways onto the Skywalk:

• The All-Access Pass, $113.85 per person all in, for the full day
• The Sunset Pass, $67.85 per person all in, for entry after 3:00 PM

If you find a blog describing a separate Skywalk add-on bolted onto a general admission ticket, you’re reading about a model that no longer exists. A lot of otherwise good travel writing hasn’t been updated since Grand Canyon West folded Skywalk access into the passes.

General Admission does not include the Skywalk. It’s the cheapest-looking ticket on the operator’s site, it’s sold at Grand Canyon West rather than here, and buying it because it’s $67 is how people end up at Eagle Point looking at a bridge they can’t walk onto.

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Hours, last entry, and the timing trap

Doors open at 8:00 AM and the park closes at 6:00 PM, every day of the year. Hours run longer in summer, so confirm the hours for the day you’re going before you set off.

Plan the drive around last entry, not around closing time. The last ticket is typically sold at 4:30 PM, later in summer, and there’s a second deadline behind it that almost nobody publishes: Grand Canyon West states that “The Skywalk last walk time typically occurs 30 minutes after last entry.” Making the gate does not guarantee you make the glass. Sunset Pass entry closes earlier still: “The Last Sunset Pass Ticket Sold and Last Entry is at 5:15pm Daily.”

Now set that against the drive: roughly 2 to 2.5 hours by road from Las Vegas, about 120 miles. Leave the Strip at 1:00 PM, add one slow stretch on the way out, and you can arrive at a closed ticket window after four and a half hours of driving for nothing.

Go early. The low morning sun is the difference between looking down through the floor and looking at the sky reflected back at you. Glare is the most common complaint about the glass, and it’s an angle-of-the-sun problem, not a glass problem.

Or go late, deliberately. The Sunset Pass exists for this: entry after 3:00 PM, a lower sun on the glass, and the cheapest way onto the Skywalk. It doesn’t include the zipline, the arcade or the meal credit.

Planning the drive? Our guide to driving to the Skywalk from Las Vegas covers the route and the timing. And yes, Diamond Bar Road is paved the whole way in now, so a standard rental car is fine.

Not the South Rim, not the North Rim, and not the National Park. It is the closest rim to Las Vegas, which is why most people come.

Two consequences worth knowing:

• National Park entrance passes don’t apply. This is tribal land, not a federal park. The Hualapai Tribe is a sovereign Indigenous nation that receives no federal funding, and Grand Canyon West is how the Tribe sustains its community and cares for this stretch of canyon — so a pass here isn’t a subsidized park entrance fee, and comparing the two prices isn’t comparing like with like.
• You park once and ride. The hop-on/hop-off shuttle is how you move between Eagle Point (where the Skywalk is), Guano Point and Hualapai Point. You can’t drive between them.

If what you want is the vast, layered, hundred-mile panorama that lives in your head when someone says “Grand Canyon”, the South Rim delivers that better — and we’d rather say so now than have you discover it at Eagle Point. We’ve mapped how far the Skywalk is from the South Rim if you’re weighing the two. What the West Rim has that the South Rim doesn’t: you can walk out over the canyon on glass, fly to the canyon floor and be on the river the same afternoon, and do all of it as a day trip from Las Vegas.

What you actually get for $113.85

The loudest thing on the internet about this place is that it’s overpriced. So here’s the arithmetic.

The pass is priced as a day, not as a bridge ticket. It covers the Skywalk, the zipline at Hualapai Point, unlimited arcade play, Hualapai-guided tours and exhibits, Indigenous song and dance performances, the shuttle to every viewpoint, walking trails, and $10 off a meal plus $10 off merchandise. Set against seventy feet of glass, $113.85 is a lot. Set against a full day on a rim the Hualapai Tribe owns and runs, the math changes.

For a lot of visitors, Guano Point ends up being the best part of the day. The shuttle drops you there and you walk out to the point on the ridge trail. Grand Canyon West describes the path to the tram and the Highpoint Hike as a dirt road rather than a paved walkway, so wear shoes you can walk in and budget an hour. 

A few things worth knowing first:

• The zipline is “based on availability. Ride not guaranteed.” That’s the operator’s own wording. Minimum weight 90 lb, maximum 275 lb, minimum height 4 feet; riders 12 and under must be with a parent or guardian aged 16+; not suitable if you’re pregnant or have had a previous neck or back injury.
• The Skywalk runs first-come, first-served. Grand Canyon West says access “is subject to attraction availability”, that “availability is not guaranteed”, and that “wait times may vary based on attendance”. Arriving early is the only lever you control.
• The meal credit is a discount, not a free lunch. $10 off with a minimum $20 food purchase per person, and the merchandise discount works the same way. Outside food and drink aren’t permitted, so you’ll be eating on site.
• Budget four to six hours on site, on top of the drive. Treat it as a day out, not a stop on the way to somewhere else.

Rules that trip people up on the glass bridge

Five small rules, all much easier to know now than at the front of the line.

Your phone is fine. Your camera and your bag are not. Grand Canyon West’s policy reads:

“Cell phones are permitted on the Skywalk, but please take selfies at your own risk. The Skywalk is not responsible for any damage to or loss of your phone. For your safety, do not extend your arm over the railing when taking photos. Please note that personal items such as cameras, purses, backpacks, and similar belongings are not allowed on the Glass Bridge. Complimentary lockers are provided to safely store your items during your visit.” — Grand Canyon West

So you can shoot your own photos and video on your phone. A DSLR, a mirrorless body or a serious lens goes in a locker — worth knowing before you haul it two hours across the desert.

Shoes are required, and you’ll wear booties over them. They protect the glass, and everyone wears them. Wear something you can slip covers over easily.

Children can walk it; strollers can’t. Grand Canyon West says children who can walk on their own may cross, children who can’t yet walk may be carried, and strollers are not permitted on the bridge.

The photographers on the bridge are optional. Grand Canyon West says having your picture taken is “completely optional”. Prints and a USB bundle are sold afterwards, and no photo price is published anywhere, so don’t let a number you read on a blog set your expectations either way.

Accessibility: the Skywalk Terminal has an elevator, and the shuttle accommodates walkers and manual or motorized wheelchairs.

How to buy your Skywalk tickets

Book before you drive. Buying online means you’re not standing in line at the terminal after two hours in the car. Buying ahead doesn’t extend last entry, so you still have to be through the gate before the cut-off, but it means you’re not also at a ticket window while the clock runs out.

One number, no arithmetic at the gate. The prices here are what your card is charged, per person: $113.85 for the All-Access Pass, $67.85 for the Sunset Pass. Grand Canyon West advertises the same two passes at $99 and $59. Both sets of numbers are real; they’re measured differently, and the “hidden fees” complaints in reviews usually come down to someone meeting the higher number at the register having only ever seen the lower one.

Check what an OTA listing actually includes. Most Las Vegas “Grand Canyon West” listings on the big marketplace sites are bus tours: a seat, a guide and a fixed schedule. If you have a car and want the rim on your own clock, you want a pass, not a tour.

Thinking bigger? Add a 15-to-20-minute panoramic flight over the canyon and the Colorado at $330.05 per person, or fly 3,500 feet down to the canyon floor and ride the river by pontoon at $480.70. Both include the All-Access Pass, both check in at the Helicopter Terminal building next to Terminal 1, and both ask you to check in one hour before your scheduled flight. See every West Rim experience we sell, or the lodging options out at the West Rim if you’d rather not drive back the same day.

The bridge itself

The Skywalk opened on March 28, 2007: a horseshoe-shaped glass walkway, 10 feet wide, extending 70 feet out beyond the rim, built from 1.2 million pounds of steel and glass. Ten feet wide is two people side by side with room to stop. Horseshoe means you walk out, curve, and come back facing the rim you just left, in cloth booties, with your phone in your hand and everything else in a locker. Grand Canyon West states it is engineered to withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake and 100 mph winds, and says more than 10 million visitors have been out on it since.

It belongs to the Hualapai Tribe, who own it and run it, and the revenue from your ticket stays with the Tribe rather than going to a federal agency. That’s a real part of what you’re paying for. More on the landmark on our Grand Canyon West Skywalk page.

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