Grand Canyon News

If you're taking a summer vacation to Grand Canyon National Park this year, plan to stop and visit Walnut Canyon National Monument. It's only 8 miles east of Flagstaff and a quick 3 miles off Interstate 40. You won't find an easier and more enjoyable way to see extremely well-preserved cliff dwellings. You can spend a couple of hours or a leisurely half-day. Either way, Walnut Canyon is a beautiful and popular side trip as you head to the Grand Canyon.

There is a hard balance that places like Grand Canyon try to find between the experience and the safety of the public. The history of the Park includes unfortunate events. The Park does take measures to prevent these sad occurrences from happening and is very much prepared to take emergency actions should it be necessary.

Grand Canyon National Park is home to a wide assortment of dangerous animals. The mountain lion, with retractable claws and large teeth, patrols vass areas of land within Grand Canyon National Park occassionally wandering into Grand Canyon Village. Black bears with massive and incredibly strong bodies and insatiable appettites are also register in NPS' Grand Canyon mamallian animal list. Elk, especially during the rut, can charge without notice bringing their sharp antlers to bear with 750 pounds of muscle behind them.

 Archaeologists are excavating sites along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in hopes of saving artifacts before they wash away.

"This year, take a moment, an hour, a day to visit the national parks near you," from the National Park Service

Looking over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Don Stover points out the blues, greens and other pastel colors in the landscape, and then his mind starts racing.

Species Spotlight: Collared Peccary (Tayassu tajuca)If you spot what looks like a wild boar off in the distance from your campsite, don’t jump to conclusions – you might actually be looking at a collared peccary, which is a breed apart!

Even Grand Canyon National Park is getting in on the spring break action this year.

Although those who experience the beauty of the Grand Canyon might be most likely to recount a hike down Bright Angel Trail or sunset viewed from Hopi Point, visitors may not realize that some of their memories of the canyon were likely made at one of the great, iconic buildings designed by legendary architect Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter.

Love a train ride? Ready to see the Grand Canyon?

The store that housed Verkamp's Curios for about a century on the South Rim has been converted into a book store, a center for visitors, and a starting point for Grand Canyon hikes, the National Park Service said Monday. 

Interior Department officials ignored scientific findings when they limited water flows in the Grand Canyon to optimize generation of electric power there, risking damage to the landmark's ecology, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. 

Congressman Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, has reintroduced legislation prohibiting new uranium claims, exploration, and mining across one million acres of public lands watersheds surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. 

A small lightning-caused fire has been discovered on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. The 'November Fire' is burning in ponderosa pine and some fir approximately 6.5 miles north and west of the developed area on the North Rim, according to a U.S. Forest Service news release.

Officers, deputies and rescuers from eight public safety agencies worked today and Sunday to evacuate more than 400 campers and residents from Supai Canyon after heavy rainfall and the breach of an earthen dam flooded the area. No injuries were immediately reported.