Grand Canyon National Park

P.O. Box 129
Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Visitor Information: 928-638-7888
Fax: 928-638-7797

www.nps.gov/grca/

Quick Facts:

• The park includes over a million acres of land beginning at Lees Ferry and ends at Grand Wash Cliffs.
• The Colorado River is longer than Grand Canyon, flowing 1450 miles/2333 km from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
• Grand Canyon is only one of many beautiful canyons carved by the river. Others include Cataract Canyon and Glen Canyon, the latter now lying beneath the waters of Lake Powell.
• Width and depth of the canyon vary from place to place. At the South Rim, near Grand Canyon Village, it's a vertical mile (about 5000 feet/1524 m) from rim to river, or 7 miles/11.3 km by trail.
• At its deepest, it is 6000 vertical feet/1829 m from rim to river. The width of the canyon at Grand Canyon Village is 10 miles/16 km (rim to rim), though in places it is as much as 18 miles/29 km wide.
• A trip to the bottom of the canyon and back (on foot or by mule) is a two-day journey.
• Rim-to-rim hikers generally take three days one-way to get from the North Rim to the South Rim.