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Two sides to the story | South Rim, Grand Canyon, AZ |
Actually, there are two basic sides to the canyon, namely the North Rim and the South Rim. The South Rim is much more famous and more developed, with respect to tourist infrastructure.
Some will say that the South Rim is more beautiful as well, but I don't necessarily agree. Whereas the South Rim is flashy, bright and warm (or more correctly hot), the North Rim is darker, quieter, more brooding and blessedly cool. The difference isn't the 100 miles or so between the two areas so much. It's more a case of the North Rim being about 1500 feet higher in altitude.
Both sides are beautiful and amazing, and you've got to spend time on both sides to do the Canyon. Only when you do as Joni Mitchell wrote, "looking at life from both sides now", can you really be completely fulfilled by your Grand Canyon visit. |
| North Rim, Grand Canyon, AZ (Transept Trail view) |
|  | The sedate and secretive North Rim As mentioned above, the North Rim is the quieter and lesser-known side of the magical Grand Canyon. But for my money, it's the place that you really want to spend some time. Only at the North Rim can you drive away from the (ONLY) hotel into the woods and see deer and other wildlife on any almost any night. The North Rim is peace and quiet and cool mountain breezes. The North Rim is tall stands of Ponderosa pine stretching, it seems, to the clouds. Staying at the North Rim cabins is a pleasing step back into the wilderness travel of the mid to late 1930s.
True lovers of nature and solitude will become North Rim lovers in short order. |
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| Pros: | "It's the Grand Canyon....there is nothing like it anywhere else in the world." | | Cons: | "At the South Rim, it may seem like there's nobody anywhere ELSE in the world. It's crowded." | | In A Nutshell: | "Everyone's first impression is usually a gasp." |
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TheWanderingCamel Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:05 UTC
The canyon in midwinter - white, white snow on the rainbow f the rocks - unforgettable. leyle | Nemorino Sun Jan 8, 2006 15:03 UTC
I've just been reading about the history of the Grand Canyon Railway, from Williams to the South Rim. Have you ever taken it or seen it, by any chance? | grandmaR Fri Aug 12, 2005 21:03 UTC
North Rim Campground and Lodge is a category under Grand Canyon National Park - Hotels & Accommodations and there aren't very many tips in that location. | EllenH Thu Jan 20, 2005 05:29 UTC
i used to work on the south rim, (1982) and I never did see the north. It looks wonderful. |
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