Highways to Grand Canyon

The expansive beauty of the Grand Canyon Country is accentuated through its great network of fine surfaced highways, wend-framed with scenic beauty on every hand-which adds thrills mile by mile, and the suspense of the greatest spectacle on earth is heightened and prolonged until the brink of the abyss is reached. The dark pines of the Kaibab conceal the Grand Canyon from view, except for fleet glimpses, to the very rim.

Several of America's great trans-continental highways entering Arizona from California, Utah, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico, as well as from the Republic of Mexico, lead directly to the North and South rims through feeders of the Arizona Highway system. This network leads to Cameron, Flagstaff, Williams and Jacob Lake, where the state highways continue on to the very heart of this greatest of natural wonders.

The Canyon may be viewed to advantage by way of the two South rim drives from Grand Canyon Village. The East rim or Desert View Drive wends along the edge of the Canyon through rolling and wooded country to the Desert View Watchtower. There are several turnout points along the route affording excellent views. The North Rim, over fifteen miles away, and the Canyon's mile-depth present an ever-changing drama unequalled in beauty of color and contrasting form.

The West Rim or Hermit's Rest Drive branches west from Bright Angel Lodge in Grand Canyon Village and follows the extreme edge of the Canyon rim to many points of interest and glorious vistas.

State Highway 64 and U. S. Highway 89 connect the South Rim with the North Rim, which is approached from Jacob Lake over State Highway 67 through the northern section of the Kaibab. Dense stands of spruce and fir as well as open meadows, border groves of silver trunked aspens along the road to Grand Canyon Lodge on the brink of the North Rim.