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Weather Arizona National Park. Live
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from the Grand Canyon National park
in Arizona, live view over the
Colorado river.
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
gorge of the Colorado River,
considered to be one of the major
natural wonders of the world. The
park covers 1,902 mi2 (4927 km2) of
unincorporated area in Coconino
County and Mohave County.
Most visitors to the park come to
the South Rim, arriving on Arizona
State Route 64. The Highway enters
the park through the South Entrance,
near Tusayan, Arizona, and heads
eastward, leaving the park through
the East Entrance. All park
accommodations are operated by the
Xanterra corporation. Park
headquarters are at Grand Canyon
Village, a 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
much smaller venue for tourists is
found on the North Rim, accessed by
Arizona State Route 67. There is no
road connection between the two
within Arizona except via the Navajo
Bridge, near Page, Arizona,
entailing a five-hour drive.
Otherwise, the two rims of the
Canyon are connected via Las Vegas,
Nevada, and the Hoover Dam.
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 the Grand Canyon
became a national monument on
January 11, 1908, and was designated
national park on February 26, 1919.
The creation of the park was an
early success 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 be built upriver, flooding
Glen Canyon and creating Lake
Powell.) In 1979, UNESCO declared it
as a World Heritage Site.
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