The Grand Canyon is one of the most timeless places on earth. The spectacle of the sunrise over the mile-deep, 18-mile-wide chasm is as mesmerizing as watching ocean waves. But just as you can’t grasp the size of the swells without swimming, you can’t comprehend the depth of the canyon without descending. The best way…

The word “breathtaking” did not make it into Noah Webster’s original 1823 American Dictionary of the English Language. Perhaps, it is because the adjective was not necessary until the Grand Canyon became a national monument and then a national park almost a century after Webster first published his grand volume. Yet, it is the word…

By Mark Davis From Las Vegas Review-Journal The North Rim of the Grand Canyon normally reopens May 15 after being closed over the winter. Not this year. The North Rim entrance will reopen June 2 to mark the start of the 2023 season, Grand Canyon National Park officials announced in a statement. The South Rim…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.—For years, the Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been a painful reminder for a Native American tribe that was displaced by the national park. Now, the name will finally be changed. The Havasupai Tribe and Grand Canyon National Park announced Monday that Indian Garden will…

The far rim is so distant, it seems to shimmer in an entirely different reality, another world. A place separated, north from south, by a chasm. Normally, canyons are deep and narrow, slender enough that the floor remains in an almost-perpetual shadow, a little silvery sliver of river snaking at the bottom, a fleeting flash…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—Crews searching for a missing man at Grand Canyon National Park made an unexpected discovery this summer. They found the remains of another person, believed to be Scott Walsh, who was last seen stepping off a shuttle bus at the park’s South Rim in 2015. The clothing had blended in with the surroundings, and…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.—A body found at the Grand Canyon is believed to be a Hungarian man who was reported missing in July, authorities said. The body believed to be Gabor Berczi-Tomcsanyi, 45, was found Monday about 430 feet below the rim at Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon National Park officials said Wednesday. Berczi-Tomcsanyi was…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—Authorities are searching for two people who were on a river rafting trip through the Grand Canyon and went missing after a flash flood, a park spokeswoman said Thursday. Authorities got a call Wednesday evening from someone on a commercial trip on the Colorado River saying people had been injured and asking for emergency…

A Washington state man faces federal charges after allegedly organizing a large group hike at the Grand Canyon in violation of COVID-19 restrictions and other rules, according to court documents. Joseph Don Mount took around 153 people to the canyon in October for a rim-to-rim hike, according to a complaint filed this week in U.S. Magistrate…

One person was killed after a tour bus on its way to the Grand Canyon rolled and landed on its side on Friday afternoon, officials said. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office announced that it is investigating an accident after a tour bus carrying 48 people, including the driver, toppled and killed one person, injuring dozens…