Everything about Grand Canyon National Park totally explained
Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest
national parks and is located in
Arizona. Within the park lies the
Grand Canyon, a gorge of the
Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural
wonders of the world. The park covers 1,902 mi² (
4927 km²).
Most visitors to the park come to the South Rim, arriving on Arizona Highway 64. The Highway enters the park through the South Entrance, near
Tusayan, Arizona, and heads eastward, leaving the park through the East Entrance. All park accommodations are operated by the
Xanterra corporation. Park headquarters are at
Grand Canyon Village, a short distance from the South Entrance, being also the center of the most popular viewpoints. Some thirty miles of the South Rim are accessible by road. A much smaller venue for tourists is found on the North Rim, accessed by Arizona Highway 67. There is no connection by road between the two, except via the
Navajo Bridge, entailing a five-hour drive. The rest of the Grand Canyon is extremely rugged and remote, although many places are accessible by pack trail and backcountry roads.
The area around the Grand Canyon became a
national monument on
January 11,
1908 and was designated national park on
February 26,
1919. The creation of the park was an early success of the environmental conservation movement; its National Park status may have helped thwart proposals to dam the Colorado River within its boundaries. (Lack of this fame may have enabled
Glen Canyon Dam to be built upriver, flooding Glen Canyon and creating Lake Powell.)
UNESCO has declared it as a
World Heritage Site.
The Grand Canyon itself, including its extensive system of tributary canyons, is valued for the spectacular combination of large size, depth, and the exposed layering of colorful rocks dating back to Precambrian times. It was created through the incision of the Colorado River and its tributaries after the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and the Colorado River system developed along its present path.
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