From the category archives:

Grand Canyon National Park

Cement Plant Proposed Near Grand Canyon?

March 16, 2009

Who ever thought of putting a cement plant 40 miles upwind of the Grand Canyon needs to get slapped in the face, then carted out to the South Rim to look at what they could have ruined. Backpacker picked up a story about a proposed Cemex cement plant in Seligman, Arizona, and picked up the [...]

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Havasupai Closed for the Year

August 31, 2008

In “Good Thing I Went There A Few Months Ago” news, the Havasupai Tribe announced this week that the trails and camps near Havasu Falls will be closed for repairs until 2009. The announcement on their web site reads: SUPAI IS CLOSED TO VISITORS UNTIL SPRING 2009 DUE TO FLOODING SUNDAY 8-17-08. IF YOU HAVE [...]

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Havasu Canyon Flood

August 18, 2008

The story of the recent flooding in Havasu Canyon continues to unfold. Over 8 inches of rain fell in the area since Friday, turning the usually calm and turquoise Havasu Creek into a raging, muddy torrent. For a visual, here is video of Havasu Falls under normal conditions: … and here it is with the [...]

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Backpacking Havasu Canyon

March 24, 2008

A 20-mile backpack in the Havasupai Reservation. This breathtaking journey takes you from the rim of one of the offshoots of the Grand Canyon down to the village of its only permanent inhabitants, alongside a tropical-turquoise river and two stunning waterfalls — Navajo and Havasu Falls. Havasu Falls has the distinction of being one of [...]

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Grand Canyon Double-Standards

March 9, 2007

I’ve been trying to think of a way to talk about the Grand Canyon Skywalk project that’s very close to opening up. While my gut reaction was to think of it as an abomination on the landscape, Ranger X reminds us not to be so quick to judge. He describes the official National Park grounds [...]

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Update: Creationism in the Canyon?

January 3, 2007

Lucky for the blogosphere some of us bloggers actually know people, and have the gumption and wherewithal to investigate stories. Of course, this site knows no one and is far too lazy to investigate anything that won’t directly lead me to a mountain, but the National Parks Traveler’s got moxie. He actually picked up the [...]

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Creationism in the Canyon?

December 30, 2006

This morning, a friend sent me a link to a press release from PEER, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The release has the sensational headline, “How old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service won’t say,” then goes on to suggest that interpretive rangers are encouraged to offer a creationist / religious theory for the [...]

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