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Grand Canyon South Rim Lodging: the Fantasy and the Reality

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 […]

3-D Art Display at Grand Canyon

Who would have guessed that Kurt Wenner would come to the Grand Canyon to display his Sidewalk Art?  This artist, who is known as the first to develop the art of 3-D sidewalk chalk drawing, has a display at the IMAX Theater in Tusayan (the town just outside the National Park boundaries.) It will be showing […]

Another Death in Grand Canyon

In addition to the horrible news today from Colorado, we hear of another death in Grand Canyon.  This one was walking on the Grand View Trail before she fell to her death.  Of course, we don’t have a name or where she was from – only that she was “apparently walking on the trail when […]

California Condors at Grand Canyon

A happy visitor who had been viewing condors at Grand Canyon Village a couple of weeks ago was surprised to note that the birds have numbers under their wings and wondered if anyone was tracking them.  In answer to her question, they are monitored by the Peregrine Fund  A recent article in the Grand Canyon […]

The “Ultimate” Grand Canyon Vacation

Good morning everybody! Today I wanted to share with you a snippet of a conversation I’ve been having with a travel agent in Australia. Due to the time difference between Arizona and Australia (today is tomorrow… don’t get me started!), it’s occurring by e-mail. My colleague asks: “what would be the “ultimate” Grand Canyon vacation?” […]