The North Rim

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is a totally different experience than that on the South Rim. You are a thousand feet higher and there are almost no crowds of people. You can drive for hundreds of miles on dirt roads to remote overlooks and never see another person. When there aren't any forest fires burning, the air is clear and the weather noticeably cooler. It also takes a good six to eight hours to drive from the South Rim at Canyon Village to get to the North Rim. This is a typical very warm sunny summer day at the North Rim. The mountains on the horizon are the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona, about two hundred miles away by road and about 50 miles away by air, straight across the Canyon.