Apr 30 2026
A national park elopement can replace banquet halls and elaborate décor with granite cliffs, alpine lakes, desert canyons, ocean overlooks, waterfalls, forests, and some of the most extraordinary landscapes in the United States. But getting married in a national park is not quite as simple as choosing a beautiful overlook and showing up with an …
Apr 19 2025
Grand Canyon National Park protects one of the most extraordinary landscapes in North America: a vast gorge carved by the Colorado River through layers of rock that record nearly two billion years of Earth history. Stretching for hundreds of miles across northern Arizona, the canyon reaches more than a mile deep in places and exposes …
Sep 14 2024
Hiking is the best way to understand just how enormous Grand Canyon National Park really is. From the rim, the canyon can look almost like a vast painted landscape, but descending even a short distance reveals layer after layer of cliffs, ridges, side canyons, desert vegetation, and changing rock formations that cannot be appreciated from …
Sep 14 2024
At the bottom of Grand Canyon National Park, almost a vertical mile beneath the South Rim, a cluster of rustic stone-and-wood buildings sits beneath cottonwood trees beside Bright Angel Creek. This is Phantom Ranch, one of the most unusual lodges in the National Park System and one of the few places in America where simply …
Sep 14 2024
The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park offers a quieter, cooler, and more remote way to experience one of America’s most famous landscapes. Forests of ponderosa pine, aspen, spruce, and fir extend almost to the canyon edge, scenic roads lead to viewpoints thousands of feet above the Colorado River, and far fewer visitors make …
Jun 15 2024
Grand Canyon National Park protects one of the most immense and recognizable landscapes on Earth, where the Colorado River has cut through layer after layer of rock to create a canyon roughly 277 river miles long, as much as 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep in places. From the forested rims, the …
