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Grand Canyon National Park IUCN Category II (National Park) Location: Arizona, USA Nearest city: Flagstaff, AZ Coordinates: 36°3′27″N, 112°8′15″W Area: 1,217,403.32 acres   (1,180,862.78 federal) 4,926.66 km² Established: February 26, 1919 Visitation: 4,326,234 (in grand caynon national park 2004) Governing body: National Park Service Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a grand cannyon national park gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of grand canyon national park the world. The park covers 1,902 mi² (4927 km²). Most visitors to the park come to the South Rim, arriving on Arizona Highway 64. The Highway enters grand canyon national park lodges the park through the South Entrance, near Tusayan, Arizona, and heads eastward, leaving the park through the East Entrance. Park headquarters are at Grand Canyon Village, a wildlife in grand canyon national park short distance from the South Entrance, being also the center of the most popular viewpoints. Some thirty miles of the South Rim are accessible by road. A grand canyon national park arizona much smaller venue for tourists is found on the North Rim, accessed by Arizona grand canyon national park lodge Highway 67. There is no connection by road between the two, except via the Navajo Bridge, entailing a five-hour drive. The rest of the Grand Canyon is extremely rugged and remote, although many places are accessible by pack trail and backcountry roads. The area around skywalk in the grand canyon national park the Grand Canyon became a grand canyon national park hotels national monument on January 11, 1908 and was designated national park on February 26, 1919. The creation of the park was an early success grand canyon national park lodging of the environmental conservation movement; its National Park status may have helped thwart proposals to dam the Colorado River within its boundaries. (Lack of this fame may have enabled Glen Canyon Dam to grand canyon national park map be built upriver, flooding Glen Canyon and creating Lake Powell.) UNESCO has declared it as a World Heritage Site. The Grand Canyon itself—really an extensive system of tributary canyons— is neither the largest or deepest canyon in the world, but is valued grand canyon national park music for the combination of large size, depth, grand canyon national park protection act and the exposed layering of colorful rocks dating back to Precambrian times. It was created mostly by regional tectonic uplift, but also by erosion from the Colorado River and its tributaries.It is also known as one of the Plateaus in America. See grand canyon national parks also List of trails in Grand Canyon National Park History of the Grand Canyon area Grand Canyon from Grandview Point View west from Yavapai Point. Light snow cover road maps of grand canyon national park on the ground. 1955. View from the South Rim at Sunset External links Grand Canyon Explorer Official site: Grand Canyon National Park General Guide: a map of grand canyon national park Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park travel guide from Wikitravel Grand Canyon North Rim Grand Canyon Photographs Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 36.05444° -112.1393° Street map from Google Maps or Yahoo! 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