| Since there are no bridges over the Colorado | | | | Park). DEPTH: One mile. The world's tallest |
| River anywhere near the Grand Canyon, the | | | | skyscrapers would fit inside the inner gorge |
| shortest distance by road between the South | | | | of the canyon. WIDTH: Varies from 4 miles to |
| Rim and the North Rim is 215 miles. The hike | | | | 18 miles. The Grand Canyon is so vast and so |
| down one side of the Grand Canyon and up the | | | | complex that it is often difficult for the |
| other takes two days and a vast amount of | | | | mind to comprehend what the eyes are seeing. |
| effort. The temperature on the rim is often | | | | Unless you are prepared to undertake an |
| in the 90's in mid summer and increases quite | | | | extremely strenuous hike or take an expensive |
| considerably as you descend from the rim. | | | | mule trip or plane ride then your views will |
| Therefore the two rims must be considered as | | | | be limited to those from the rims, but these |
| effectively forming two separate areas, | | | | are magnificent in their own right. At sunset |
| although they are within sight of each other. | | | | or sunrise, you can't tell where the heavens |
| The statistics of the Grand Canyon are | | | | end and the earth begins. Everyone should |
| staggering: LENGTH: 217 miles (not all of | | | | visit the Grand Canyon National Park. |
| which lies within the Grand Canyon National | | | | |