Our fashion for the day precluded any boots with good tread and doesn’t look like we were carrying any water with us. I’m trying to figure out what part of the park we were in for this shot, since it appears to be down by the river? I *know* good and well we did not hike all the way down there. I must have been 2 or 3 years old at the time. Note the cameras hanging around my sisters’ necks, my mother’s handbag, and me in my little dress – very fashionable for a national park visit back then. It’s #ThrowbackThursday, so I thought I’d post an image captured by my father of Mom, my two sisters, and me in Grand Canyon National Park back in the early 1960’s. I spent a couple of days at the North Rim during my move from Texas to Washington state.Ĭlick on the image above if you are interested in purchasing a print.Ĭopyright Rebecca L. This image was captured at one of the two small view areas below the Grand Canyon Lodge. Plus, there is only one lodge up there: Grand Canyon Lodge, and one campground (although there are other campgrounds outside the park boundary). Only about 10% of all visitors to this national park ever make it up to the North Rim, so it’s much less visited – although that doesn’t mean it won’t be crowded at times. And if you want to drive from the south to the north, you’ll be taking the “scenic route” and it will take you about five hours to get to the North Rim. If you choose to hike from the South Rim to the North Rim, the distance to get there is 21 miles. If you are standing at the South Rim looking toward the North Rim, the distance (as the crow flies) is about 10 miles. That means it’s cooler, wetter, and there are far more trees – so many, in fact, that I found it difficult to get an unencumbered photo of the canyon landscape because of all the trees. The North Rim is 1,000 feet higher in elevation than the South Rim. It’s Fun Fact Friday, and since the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is set to open this month, I thought I’d put a few fun facts out here about this part of Grand Canyon National Park: One Heck Of A North Rim View, Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona)