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Travel Blogs from Canyon, United States
Backroads to the Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! Leah says: While in Las Vegas we took a side trip to go and see the much talked about Grand Canyon. It was with mixed feelings as I had heard so many great things about it but then also a few people had said how disappointing it was. When researching ...
Hoover Dam, Death Valley and the Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... at the new Skywalk on the west rim - this is a horseshoe bridge with a glass floor that juts out some distance from the canyon wall giving spectacular and hair raising views straight down to the canyon. Unfortunately it is 30 miles down a dirt track ...
Detours and Spontaneity
This is a top pick! ... importantly west) when I realized that the map showed the Grand Canyon mere inches away. I had no intention of visiting the Grand Canyon again on this trip, but it had to be done! So I continued even further north and out of my way and drove ...
Grand Canyon Helicopter Ride! Hell Yeah!
This is a top pick! ... you ever go, DO the helicopter tour! Brent took 146 photos, most of which he has uploaded....... The bad thing about the canyon was trailer park hell that we stayed in..... you can rough it in certain places in the canyon but there is only 1 ...
Exploring One of the Wonders of the World!
This is a top pick! ... landing. I take a rest at the Yavapai Point Observation Station and then head west from there walking towards the Grand Canyon Village along the paved footpath. I was hoping to drive to the Hermit Trailhead to the west of the Village, but ...
The Grand Canyon!!!
This is a top pick! The views of the south rim are as peaceful as they are dramatic. The canyon is over a mile deep and ten miles across but obviously we only got chance to see a tiny portion. The highlight of our visit was the helicopter ride we took which flew a ...
It is a Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! As a kid, one of the major things you learn and hear about America is the Grand Canyon. We finally managed to hire a car for a good price and headed back to the airport to pick it up. On arrival at the desk we were told the computers were down ...
No Ass.
This is a top pick! ... flops. Naturally the bus herding the tourists stopped at a souvenir store, here I bought myself the cheapest warm item I could find. A giant hooded sweatshirt with GRAND CANYON emblazoned across it. Nice. Check: One stupid clothing ...
The Grandest Canyon
This is a top pick! ... way, it ain't exactly hard to miss. Letting my ears ring clear first on getting off the bus I wondered just how spectacular the canyon would be thinking to myself I had seen so many amazing natural wonders this year and that it's just a big crack. ...
Grand Canyon National Park to Kanab, UT
This is a top pick! ... National Park lands that says "Next gas 200 miles" is not that much to ask for, do you? We left the Grand Canyon after checking out sunrise and our campsite neighbor's complete and total lack of regard for the environment: ... and drove off ...
1673 Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... peak usually takes more time than necessary because of how controlled our steps are. Therefore I generally rush the descent. Nonetheless, Canyon hiking (and the Thira steps) is different because you descent, then ascend which is different than normal. ...
Sunday 27 July
This is a top pick! ... LPG and gas and then continued on towards Helena. We stopped about 35 miles short of Helena in an amazing place on a lake called Canyon Ferry Lake. The campsite is run by the "Bureau of Land Reclamation" and it only cost $8 a night. There are only ...
1672 Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... collegiate. After having seen the third consecutive young person with a backpack, we began to hypothesize how the Grand Canyon could operate as a college campus. The student union was the marketplace, complete with mailboxes nearby at the postal office. ...
Visiting THE Canyon!
This is a top pick! ... As it was so hot outside we had the air con on the whole time and so had to refuel at the town before the canyon. Petrol in the States is dirt cheap at about $3.20/gallon! Wish it was that cheap back home but they were still moaning about the price on ...
Winslow, AZ to Grand Canyon National Park
This is a top pick! ... . No worries, we'll stay at the no-hookup campground. Did I mention it's colder and much much much windier? The Grand Canyon is definitely awesome, in the true sense of the word... but the haze over it created by pollution coming from Los Angeles and ...
I think i've drank more in the last two ...
This is a top pick! ... trail itself is 10.3km long with a vertical drop of 1433m from the rim to the Colorado River. After reaching the bottom of the canyon and Bright Angel campground it was time to scull another half a litre of cool water then get wet in the creek that was ...
Grand Canyon North rim
This is a top pick! ... top to farm using tiny hand holds (still visable)....from 800AD. We did a great hike along a small ledge, high above the canyon floor, climbing over boulders and through small alley ways of rock, to see a wall of petroglyphs left by the Indians. ...
Saturday 17 May
This is a top pick! ... Indy for Lunch and a rest. We did the laundry and tidied up, had an early dinner and cycled back to see the beautiful shadows in the canyon as the sun set. There are great cycle paths in the Park which we made the most of. We hit the hay early ...
It's a long way down
This is a top pick! ... describe how impressive this place is – the size and power of it is quite overwhelming. A few facts and dimensions: The canyon sprawls across 1.2 million acres, aged at only 6 million years, the stratas show a well preserved 2 billion year old ...
Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... (RV). We got ourselves a camp spot and raced down to the backcountry office to try and get a permit to hike down into the canyon and camp there. There's only a certain amt of spots available and there's always a race to get them. The first spot available ...
They don't call it 'grand' for nothing...
This is a top pick! ... Elwood starts to feel poorly again. We are keeping fingers crossed that he ‘mends’ overnight as we have another canyon jaunt planned for tomorrow. Good night from the Grand Canyon, Arizona. As Elwood would say, ‘how cool is ...
Ye Olde Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! About 2 billion years old in parts and one of the few natural wonders visible from outer space. Grand Canyon was, well... grand! Huge, awesome, and very hot. We explored parts of the South Rim along with the other hundreds of tourists (the joys of peak ...
natural world wonder
... lunch provided and nice seats, but it took a long time to get to the canyon and back so we could only spend 2 hours at the canyon in one spot. The views were amazing, however I think to really appreciate it I will have to come back another time and take a ...
Mystical Miracles
... thousands of pinnacles of different coloured rock rising into the air. It was almost alien in appearance. Later that afternoon we departed Bryce Canyon and went to Mystic which is a hot springs that a hippy has set up shop in. Our driver Jimmy knew him ...
Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell
... were treated to a cruise on the lake where we saw the dam from the water and twisted our way far up into Antelope Canyon where it hardly seemed there was enough room to turn around. We viewed the very interesting colorations of the minerals painting the ...
Day 3 - Grand Canyon
... and the 50 mph wind gusts due to a approaching front. The views were outstanding, but the blowing dust created a haze in the canyon and made it difficult to see. Any time spent outside the car and you ended up covered in dust. Since we ...
Casey's and a Lot of Erosion
... a New Zealand license plate. On a lesser note we saw not one, but several Hawaiian license plates at the Grand Canyon. As evening approached, we hiked to a few of the more remote viewpoints and stood in a silent reverence of the sheer ...