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Where can I get the best photos of the Grand Canyon?

Grand Canyon Photos

As any photographer knows, the Grand Canyon offers a dizzying array of photo options. Sunrise and sunset are particularly popular choices for photos, because the lighting gives drama and texture to the shots that is missing from midday snapshots.

Grand Canyon West and the Grand Canyon Skywalk offer unique viewpoints of the canyon. The sheer walls suddenly drop directly to the Colorado River, and this area is far less frequented by visitors, so photos this area are not as common. Photos taken from the new Skywalk will add another dimension to Grand Canyon photography, giving a bird's eye view of the canyon below.

   
What is Grand Canyon West?

Another Side of the Grand Canyon

Most visitors to the Grand Canyon visit the South Rim, and few make it to the more remote North Rim. However, the Grand Canyon stretches 277 miles from tip to tip, and the North and South Rims are just a tiny part of that vast gorge.

A nearby travel alternative for Las Vegas visitors is Grand Canyon West, part of the Hualapai Indian Nation, and home to a new way to view the Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon Skywalk is slated to open in late 2006 as part of a broad plan to bring more visitors to this section of the canyon. A high-tech glass bridge that juts out of the canyon rim like an outcropping, the Grand Canyon Skywalk allows visitors to observe the canyon around and below them all the way to the Colorado River nearly a mile beneath.

   
Is the Grand Canyon Skywalk really safe for visitors?

The Strength of Steel

More than one million pounds of steel will reinforce the Grand Canyon Skywalk when it is completed. While the Skywalk may look fragile, it has been engineered to hold great weights and withstand gale-force winds. The Skywalk is the only area of the Grand Canyon where visitors can actually walk over, rather than into the canyon.

The Colorado River is also much more visible from viewpoints in this area, giving an improved snapshot of how the Colorado helped carve out the canyon through erosion. The Grand Canyon Skywalk offers photo opportunities visitors simply cannot find at any other viewpoint in this majestic natural wonder.

   
What is the Hualapai Nation?

The Hualapai Nation of Peach Springs, Arizona

The Grand Canyon Skywalk is located on the Hualapai Nation in north-western Arizona, about 120 miles from Las Vegas. The Hualapais have lived in the area for thousands of years, living off the land as nomadic hunters and gatherers.

Today, proud of their heritage, the Hualapais maintain a traditional Indian village including tipis of the Plains Indians, and representative villages of their own tribe and three other Northern Arizona tribes. Visitors to the village can learn about the culture and activities of the tribes, and watch presentations by Hualapai tribe members.

The tribe's greatest enterprise now is the creation of the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a glass bridge that will allow visitors to "float" over the canyon for spectacular views.

   
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