After exploring Zion for most of the day, our heads were filled with such great natural beauty, I didn’t know what to expect upon our arrival at the Grand Canyon lodge. All I knew was that I was very excited to see the Great Big Ditch (no not the Boston Tunnel Project). I practically ran through the lodge to the sun room that looks out over the Grand Canyon.
It’s hard to describe the Grand Canyon in words that does it justice. Krista said it was like describing the Pacific Ocean. It’s just so darn big and overpowering that it’s hard to get your mind around something that impressive. Upon further research, I did find a passage in the newspaper that we got as we entered the park did an excellent job explaining why it’s grand.
It is the ensemble of stunning dimensions – the melding of depth, width, and length – that sets the Grand Canyon apart. Nowhere else is such a dazzling variety of colorful rock layers, impressive buttes, and shadowed side canyons revealed in such a dramatic chasm. Grand Canyon is the canyon by which all other canyons want to be measured.
The view did not disappoint even with my high expectations. I’ve never seen anything in nature that beautiful, and I watch a lot of Discovery Channel.
It’s hard to describe the Grand Canyon in words that does it justice. Krista said it was like describing the Pacific Ocean. It’s just so darn big and overpowering that it’s hard to get your mind around something that impressive. Upon further research, I did find a passage in the newspaper that we got as we entered the park did an excellent job explaining why it’s grand.
It is the ensemble of stunning dimensions – the melding of depth, width, and length – that sets the Grand Canyon apart. Nowhere else is such a dazzling variety of colorful rock layers, impressive buttes, and shadowed side canyons revealed in such a dramatic chasm. Grand Canyon is the canyon by which all other canyons want to be measured.
The view did not disappoint even with my high expectations. I’ve never seen anything in nature that beautiful, and I watch a lot of Discovery Channel.
We then hiked along a very narrow ridge to Bright Angel Point to view the sunset. This busy trail is only 4 feet wide, and for most of the way, the sides of the trail fall straight down for 100s of feet. I must say that I was really scared at times. Even with impending danger at every corner, the view at the end was worth it. We were dangled on the very tip on a rocky outcropping that offered almost 360 degree views of the Grand Canyon. This was one of the best days of our trip.
2 comments:
Beautiful! I'd love to take the kids here. Was that lodge expensive? I wonder if there is an off season?
It's not bad actually. It'll be about $140 a night for all of you in one log cabin. The cabins are really rustic and cute. There are a couple of cabins near the lodge that have the same view of the Grand Canyon as the lodge. These are the choice cabins, but people reserve these one year in advance. There's no off season. They close in the winter time b/c they get about 10 feet of snow.
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