This new park gives different views of the Grand Canyon—with no crowds
Grand Canyon National Park draws 4.7 million visitors a year to the northwest corner of Arizona to hike, camp, or watch wildlife. But most of them ...
September 5, 2023
11:08 PM
Grand Canyon National Park draws 4.7 million visitors a year to the northwest corner of Arizona to hike, camp, or watch wildlife. But most of them don't realize that the lands within and surrounding the park are sacred to the region's 12 Indigenous tribes, which include the Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, and several bands of Paiute. That changed on August 8 when President Joseph Biden signed a decree creating the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument .
Joe Yogerst