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This Desert Life is Grand

Yesterday I completed my objective of visiting all five Utah National Parks on this road trip. Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands. Last week I hiked in snow showers at Bryce Canyon on a day when it was 35 degrees at 9,200 ft. Yesterday I hiked for miles in Arches National Park on [...]Show More Summary

Chimani releasing new National Park apps and an option for augmented reality

We've said good things about the Chimani apps before. With National Park Week starting today, Chimani has released additional free National Park guides, including Grand Teton, Glacier, Olympic, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, and Bryce Canyon National Parks. Show More Summary

Interested in Earth History? This is where you should learn about it...June 15-29

North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park (yes, Gaelyn, we'll be on the North Rim, hope to see you there!) There is no place on this planet like the Colorado Plateau. It's hard to find anyplace else on Earth where the crust remained relatively...Show More Summary

Sensitive sites: Research examines preservation of Southwest archaeology in time of tight budgets

New research finds mixed results when it comes to protection and preservation efforts in portions of the Grand Canyon National Park and in the Kaibab National Forest just outside the park.

Sensitive sites: UC Research examines preservation of Southwest archaeology in time of tight budgets

When surveying in the Upper Basin of the Grand Canyon National Park in April 2011, University of Cincinnati faculty and students discovered a previously unknown 17-room subterranean pueblo that likely dates back to the 12th century. For...Show More Summary

Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona – Daily Photo

Few places on earth frustrate me more as a photographer than the Grand Canyon National Park. Usually if a shot does not fit in the viewfinder of your camera you take a [...] The post Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona – Daily Photo appeared first on Amateur Traveler Travel Podcast.

Tom Kiernan: Sequester Cuts Mean Wide Ranging Impacts for Parks -- and People -- Around the Country

It's alarming that this very avoidable threat is about to become a reality. From Yellowstone to Cape Cod, the Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains, our national heritage and local economies are at risk.

New details emerge of potential sequester cuts to national parks

The automatic budget cuts set to take effect on March 1 will delay the opening of the East and West Rim drives at the Grand Canyon and reduce hours of operation at the main visitor center. At Gettysburg, 20 percent … Continue readin...

A Virtual Hike in the Grand Canyon with Google Maps

Google has released a panoramic map view of the Grand Canyon, inlcuding 75 miles of hiking trails and the surrounding roads. Much like the real thing, the map view of the national park has breathtaking imagery of red rock cliffs andShow More Summary

Explore the Grand Canyon With Google Street View

4 months agoTechnology / Gadgets : Gadget Lab

The Google Maps team went to the Grand Canyon and snapped more than 9,500 images to create a Street View map of the national park. After four months of stitching all those high-resolution pics together, the company’s Street View map...

National Parks: Admission Waived for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Today!)

The National Parks System has waived admission to all 397 national parks, including the biggies like Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Zion Park.

Rafter Mysteriously Goes Missing In Grand Canyon

4 months agoLifestyle / Travel : Gadling

The National Park Service has a mystery on their hands and it is proving to be a difficult one to solve. Twenty-one-year-old Kaitlin Kenney was part of a month-long private rafting party in the Grand Canyon when she mysteriously went missing last week. Show More Summary

Officials scale back search for Kaitlin Kenney, 21, who disappeared on Grand Canyon river trip

4 months agoNews / Crime : Crimesider

21-year-old Kaitlin Kenney was reported missing Saturday from a private river trip in Grand Canyon National Park

Pendleton National Park Blankets

A reminder to represent your favorite U.S. National Park with one of the Pendleton Park series blankets. Rainier National, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, and Yosemite were shown by the American heritage line in Berlin. Available online for $188. Pendleton National Park Blankets is a post by Jeff Carvalho on Selectism.

No sign of Colo. woman missing on Ariz. river trip

4 months agoNews : The Newsroom

Authorities are scaling back the search for a Colorado woman reported missing from a private river trip in Grand Canyon National Park.

Gangnam hikers

6 months agoFitness / Hiking : BestHike.com

Our Hiking Trip: Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, North and South Coyote Buttes, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Horseshoe Bend Overlook, Lower Antelope Canyon Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Thanks To...

The Grand Circle

6 months agoOdd : The Presurfer

Filmed over two weeks in Utah and Arizona during November 2012. The Grand Circle is a 2,000 mile route that winds through Arches National Park, Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Antelope Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, Mesa Verde, Natural Bridges, Canyonlands, and Grand Staircase-Escalante. YouTube link (thanks Miss Rare) The Presurfer

Prescribed fire smoke adds “texture” to views of the Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon National Park employee who updated the InciWeb report for the Thompson prescribed fire put an interesting spin on the smoke visible from Mather Point,  describing it as as adding a “special texture” to the view. The park is … Continue reading ?

Prescribed fire smoke adds “texture” to views of the Grand Canyon

Prescribed fire smoke adds “texture” to views of the Grand Canyon In an effort to put an interesting spin on the effects of prescribed fire smoke in the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service employee who updated the InciWeb reportShow More Summary

Google Street View Cameras Map Popular Grand Canyon Trails

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Google and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a tricycle, inside the Smithsonian with a push cart and to British Columbia’s snow-covered slopes by snowmobile. Show More Summary

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