Discover Grand Canyon (Az)

Grand Canyon is one of the most incredible places in the world. Always been one of the major natural attractions for tourists come from all over the world to visit the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA.

The Grand Canyon is an enormous gorge created by the Colorado River in northern Arizona. It is about 446 km long, up to 1,600 meters deep and with a variable width from 500 meters to 27 kilometers from Point Imperial to the shores of Lake Mead. The environment is desert and the lack of herbaceous cover of the ground reveal a geological history that is unprecedented. Surprisingly, the rock layers exposed in the Grand Canyon show few signs of wear. The layers were preserved almost perfectly. Nowhere else on Earth shows many books on the history of the planet in such good condition.

The resulting landscape offers visitors some of the most beautiful and unsurpassed in the world.

The nearest airports are located in Flagstaff and Phoenix. Las Vegas is located about 270 km away. The destination is reachable by the railway line served by Grand Canyon Railway, or with Amtrak services that serve the nearby town of Williams.