Blogs from Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States, North America - page 2

We arrived at the Grand Canyon around dinner time. We checked a couple lookouts then decided to make dinner and watch the sunset. It was a beautiful evening and we could have stared at the canyon for hours. ... read more

The big nature day of the trip delivered on all its promises. A full day in Arizona, and I’ve finally been gotten back to a place where I’ve already been before. I’ve been seeing something new ever since we left San Antonio last Thursday after the Alamo Bowl. But once we pulled into the Grand Canyon this afternoon, I was back on familiar territory. Of course this time, I went in the opposite direction from before. We woke up in Page, Arizona, which is the gateway to several of the natural locales in the area. Just outside of Page is the Horseshoe Bend area, which I had seen in photos online and from friends. I was so jealous of those views, and when I was planning this trip, I knew I had to make a stop ... read more

After an amazing experience at the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert, we continued west. The drive on 40W (new Route 66) is endless...you can see for miles - fields/deserts, wide open spaces. In some areas you can see the Historic Route 66 (2 lane road) right next to 40W. Off in the distance, trains ? We can only imagine what it would have been like driving on Route 66 back in the day. You can pop on and off from the new Route 66 (40W) to the Historic Route 66 along the way. My dad, when he was a young boy, travelled the now Historic Route 66 with his parents and talked about no air conditioning, windows rolled down, and canvas bags ? filled with water ? attached to the front of the car ? for ... read more

Vi lämnade byn Williams redan vid åttatiden för att få en heldag i Grand Canyon. Vägen in i nationalparken var inte riktigt som vi föreställt oss, man körde i tallskog och plötsligt bara försvann marken och från ingenstans uppenbarade sig Grand Canyon. Vi parkerade och när vi gick ur bilen välkomnades vi av ekorrar och rådjur. Det finns såklart många olika vandringar och platser att se i Grand Canyon (den är verkligen GRAND), men efter att googlat runt lite bestämde vi oss för att vandra ner i kanjonen till Skeleton point. Utifrån det vi läst verkade det vara en vandring som passade oss och där man kom en bit ifrån alla människor. Innan vi påbörjade vandringen till Skeleton point gick vi en bit på Rim trail, som går utmed kanten på kanjonen. Härifrån har man en ... read more

Most of today was simply riding back to the North Rim on the Transcanyon Shuttle, an awesome service that has some sort of working relationship with the NPS. But I really really wanted breakfast at El Tovar, too. So we got up at 5:30am, which sounds more awful than it actually was considering we had been up at 3am the past two mornings and we were all asleep last night by 9pm. Plenty of glorious sleep was had. We walked over to the hotel with all our gear- there were elk everywhere. So many elk that I wasn't really sure how to walk around them. Lots of tourists taking photos, too. The elk herds in Crescent City were alot more wary of humans than these guys and they seemed to not care a bit when we ... read more