Desert View Watchtower, Grand Canyon

Desert View Watchtower is a 70-foot high stone building located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The four-story structure, completed in 1932, was designed by American architect Mary Colter, an employee of the Fred Harvey Company who also created and designed many other buildings in the Grand Canyon vicinity including Hermit's Rest and the Lookout Studio. The interior contains murals by Fred Kabotie

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South Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon

We hiked the South Kaibab Trail, it begins south of Yaki Point. Described as a steep trail, the trail head is 7200 feet. We made it to Cedar Ridge 6060 feet, the return trip of 1140 feet you cover in 1.5 miles will have you huffing and puffing! The trail is on the canyon wall and then you follow a ridge down. The views are breath taking!! The first rest area on the hike is Ooh Aah Point, and it is an ooh ahh moment!

You can just see in the photo below, the trail going down the side of the canyon wall.

Jordyn taking a rest in the Juniper trees

Cedar Ridge, was our turn around point. From here you can continue on to Skeleton Point another 3 miles and you drop another 860 feet. The return trip would have been a climb of 2000 feet in just 3 miles!

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Grand Canyon, Arizona

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world. The park covers 1,902 miles of area in Coconino County and Mohave County.

This is one of those places that is indescribable unless you are standing here! A camera can’t capture the beauty and enormous size of the canyon.

We stayed on the south rim at camper village, covered in snow once again. The weather changes fast here, we were hiking in t-shirts earlier in the day and ended up in heavy jackets by evening time.

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