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Grand Canyon Railway and Grand Canyon Picture Tour

Experience the Grand Canyon

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Erosion sculpted the Grand Canyon
(c) Vincent Sardone.
America's most majestic national treasure, the Grand Canyon was formed millions of years ago. Relentless rushing waters of the Colorado River eroded the chasm, which is now 277 miles long, a mile deep, and as wide as 18 miles across in places.

The Grand Canyon was declared a national monument in 1908 and made a national park in 1919. The protected area spans 1,900 square miles.

Vast, windswept, water-sculpted, multi-colored vistas are transformed as clouds shadow and leave the canyon and sunrise gives way to sunset. For generations artists, writers, and photographers have tried to capture the wild beauty of the Grand Canyon.

Perhaps naturalist John Muir described it best:

    The colors, the living, rejoicing colors, chanting morning and evening in chorus to heaven! Whose brush or pencil, however lovingly inspired, can give us these? In the supreme flaming glory of sunset the whole canyon is transfigured, as if the life and light of centuries of sunshine stored up in the rocks was now being poured forth as from one glorious fountain, flooding both earth and sky."

  1. Getting to Grand Canyon National Park
  2. Travel on the Grand Canyon Railway
  3. Plan a Trip on the Grand Canyon Railroad
  4. View Scenery through the Grand Canyon Train Dome Car
  5. Arrive at Grand Canyon Depot
  6. Experience the Grand Canyon
  7. View the Grand Canyon's South Rim
  8. Where to Stay in the Grand Canyon
  9. Tour Historic Grand Canyon Buildings
  10. Rainbow over the Grand Canyon

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