The Grand Canyon is more than just a big, gaping stretch. It's a prime spot for river adventures that can last from a day to ...

Grand Canyon National Park announced April 9 that it's extending closures of multiple inner canyon areas for planned maintenance. The facilities, which were expected to open this spring and are now ...

The Wave may be one of the oldest and most familiar examples of land managers instituting a system to protect special places ...

The Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival is underway and among the films playing is About Damn Time, the story of how women broke ...

Bill Hatcher More than four million people visit the Grand Canyon each year. Most don’t venture beyond the rim (above, the Little Colorado River as seen from Cape Solitude, one of the best ...

We’re on a cliff roughly 3,500 feet above the Colorado River at the tip of the Great Thumb Mesa, a spectacular formation that thrusts out from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon like the bow of ...

You can also follow the Bright Angel Trail (on foot or by mule) from the Grand Canyon Village down into the canyon. This 12-mile round-trip trail offers close-up views of the Colorado River and ...

And, you know, it took probably a thousand years to form one inch of it ... and very ancient geology. The Grand Canyon was carved out of rock by the Colorado River over millions of years.

John Wesley Powell A professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan, John Wesley Powell had more than just a passing interest in the layers upon layers of rocks exposed by the Colorado River.

Reservoirs along the river may never ... rafting through the Grand Canyon and using his own two feet to traverse the delta. In his career, McBride, who lives near Basalt, Colorado, has taken ...

A variety of companies offer helicopter tours of the Grand Canyon, with many options departing from Grand Canyon National Park Airport (located in Tusayan) and most Las Vegas hotels. Read on to ...

May 30 -- The party passes safely through its first three canyons: Flaming Gorge, Canyon of ... Junction with the Colorado, George Bradley: "Hurra! Hurra! Hurra! Grand River [Colorado River ...