Top 10 Activities in Grand Canyon National Park

While the Grand Canyon is one of the world’s best-known “must-see” destinations, there is also plenty to experience. Xanterra South Rim, L.L.C., operator of the lodges and other services in Grand Canyon National Park at the South Rim, offers its top 10 things to do in the park – ...

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Grand Canyon Railway Offers Free Train Rides for Active-Duty Military in May 2010

Active-duty members of the United States Armed Forces will receive free coach class service on the Grand Canyon Railway throughout the month of May 2010. The offer is valid for train tickets only May 1-31, 2010. Discounts are available to eligible dependents and others traveling in the party if they ...

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Desert View Watchtower in Grand Canyon National Park to Undergo Renovations

esert View Watchtower, one of the most prominent architectural features on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, is slated to undergo renovations over the next several months. The Watchtower is located at Desert View, the eastern-most developed area on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.  Recognized ...

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Taking Your Pets on the Road: Ten Pet-Friendly Accommodations

More than 75 percent of Americans would take their pet on every vacation -- if only they could -- a recent survey by the American Automobile Association and Best Western International found. Not only that, almost 30 percent of traveling pet-owners said they would choose their pets over their ...

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Walking Into the Earth’s Heart: The Grand Canyon

 “I have heard rumors of visitors who were disappointed,” J. B. Priestley once said of the Grand Canyon. “The same people will be disappointed at the Day of Judgment.”I have to confess I was disappointed on my first visit to the canyon more than a decade ago. One July, ...

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Grand Canyon to change backpacking permit system

Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system. Now those who want the coveted permits either show up in person or try their luck with mail or ...

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Officials at Canyon propose response to climate change

Officials at the Grand Canyon are proposing to make the national park one of at least 50 in the country that attempts to counter and respond to global climate change.Led in part by an administrator formerly charged with tackling global warming for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the national ...

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Winter Travel Deals: The Grand Canyon and Mexico

Entering the busiest travel weeks of the season, it may come as a surprise that there are a lot of great deals to be found, especially in the few-week period between the peaks of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. The vast majority of national park visits occur between May ...

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The Grand Canyon is Alive with the Sound of Music

Stop by the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Friday, November 13, to catch a presentation by Randy Erwin, a western/cowboy singer and yodeler, who is the park’s Artist-in-Residence during November. He’ll be giving a performance and musical presentation at 7:30 p.m. at the Shrine of Ages.The park’s ...

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Grand Canyon considers limits on mule trains

For more than a century, mules have been carrying people into and out of the Grand Canyon. Teddy Roosevelt saddled up wearing a black felt hat and a tie. The Brady Bunch rode down with Alice. And today, another group of tourists will hit the trail.Yet the mules, while ...

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Grand Canyon National Park Selects Send Word Now(TM) Alert Service

Send Word Now, the leading provider of emergency notification and on-demand alerting and response services, announced today that Grand Canyon National Park has selected the Send Word Now Alert Service to communicate with personnel across the entire park. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long and receives close to five million ...

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Grand Canyon plan would upgrade tribal housing

A Grand Canyon housing area for members of a tribe displaced by the national park is in desperate need of repair.The five 300-square-foot cabins at Supai Camp have no plumbing or insulation, the floors are cracked, windows are broken and the electric work dates to the 1930s when the ...

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Officials Unsure When Yosemite’s Grand Canyon Trail Will Open

Yosemite, CA -- The Grand Canyon Trail along the Tuolumne River remains closed as firefighters continue to manage the 900 plus acre Wildcat Fire in Yosemite National Park.The Yosemite Fire Information Office says that the Wilderness Ranger and Fire Management are working together to evaluate when the trail can ...

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Paint the Parks 100 exhibition on display this month at Kolb Studio

This month, head to Grand Canyon National Park’s Kolb Studio to view the 2009 “Paint the Parks 100.” The exhibition, sponsored by Grand Canyon Association and Grand Canyon National Park, showcases the paintings of the contest’s top 100 winners and will be on display through September 15. Paint the Parks 100 is America’s leading ...

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US Govt Proposes Halting Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon

The U.S. Interior Department proposed Monday a two-year suspension of new mining claims on Arizona lands near the Grand Canyon National Park pending further study into whether such lands should be permanently protected from development.The Interior Department said it is taking public comments on its proposal to take nearly ...

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