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Grand Canyon National Park
What's New ?
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Current Items of Interest:
- Read the Park's Latest News Releases Here
- Fire Information and Activity Here
- Free Shuttle Buses are now providing the transportation along the scenic Hermit Road. The entire length of the Hermit Road is now closed to private vehicles between the Village Loop Transfer Station and Hermits Rest. Read more...
- National Park Service seeking comments on construction of new Science and Resource Management Facility within Grand Canyon National Park
Comments will be accepted for 30 days: until May 6, 2009. Read more...
- Roadway Construction to Begin This Month on South Rim
Parking and roadway improvements will occur adjacent to the Grand Canyon Visitor Center (Visitor Center) at Canyon View Information Plaza (CVIP). Read more...
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- April 11-July 9, 2009
Historic Kolb Studio Art Exhibit:
Wild About Children's Books - Wildlife Art for Kids
Children’s books combine engaging imagery and vivid language to tell their stories while at the same time fostering literacy. Three new children’s books about the Southwest are featured in this dazzling exhibition that demonstrates why books continue to thrive in an electronic age. Admission is free. More...
- June 13-20, 2009
Grand Canyon Star Party
Explore the wonders of the night sky at Grand Canyon with astronomers from the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association on the South Rim and the Saguaro Astronomy Club on the North Rim. Evening presentations are followed by telescope viewing opportunities continuing well into the night. More information....
- July 6-27, 2009
Digital Photography Workshops and Slide Shows
The National Park Service hosts Canon and American Park Network in presenting free digital photography workshops. Meet at Mather Ampitheater behind Park Headquarters and join a photo walk with seasoned professionals who share their experience taking landscape and wildlife photographs using the latest digital technology. More information...
- September 11 - 26, 2009
The Grand Canyon Music Festival, 26th Session
Held at the South Rim's Shrine of the Ages, the 2009 season opens September 11th and 12th with the stringband ETHEL, the GCMF's Native American Composer Apprentice Project ensemble-in-residence. The Bonfiglio Group performs jazz and blues on September 18th, followed by festival founders Clare Hoffman and Robert Bonfiglio and friends on September 19th. The season concludes with the Enso String Quartet performing works by Ravel and Schumann on September 25th and 26th.
For details on the roster of artists and programs and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.grandcanyonmusicfest.org or call 928-638-9215
- September 19 - November 1, 2009
Grand Canyon Celebration of Art
This major art show will provide an opportunity for park visitors to see the works of some of the best master artists in the nation as they seek to capture the beauty of the timeless Grand Canyon landscape on canvas.
The show opens to the public on September 19. 2009 and continues through November 1, 2009.
Everyone is invited -- no admission fee. View the Modern Masters studio work and the Plein Air on the Rim paintings created during the Festival week. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to purchase a priceless piece of art that will forever be a memory of the majestic beauty of Grand Canyon.
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A Chronology of Recent Events:
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Event took place on Saturday, May 2, 2009
Celebrate Wildlife Day
Grand Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon Association, and other partners presented indoor and outdoor programs and exhibits throughout the day at the Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim of Grand Canyon. This event provided visitors with opportunities to learn about regional wildlife and about the work of wildlife biologists. More information....
- Event took place on Saturday, April 4, 2009
Third Grand Canyon Hiker's Symposium:
This annual symposium presented hiking and backpacking exploits and explorations in the Grand Canyon. Each of the 20-minute presentations described a hike or overnight backpack on corridor trails or in the more remote backcountry of the park. Presented by the Grand Canyon Hikers and Backpacker's Association, in conjunction with the Grand Canyon Field Institute, at the Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim. The event was free and open to the public. More infromation...
- Event took place on Saturday, March 28, 2009
Grand Canyon Archeology Day
In celebration of "Arizona Archaeology Month," the National Park Service offered a variety of free activities at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center at Canyon View Information Plaza on the South Rim as well as a special evening presentation by Ian Hough, park archeologist. More information....
- Grand Canyon National Park celebrated its 90th anniversary and the grand opening of the Verkamp’s Visitor Center on Thursday, February 26, 2009
The public joined park staff, friends, partners and dignitaries for cake after a brief ceremony at the Verkamp’s Visitor Center, which is located on the South Rim next to Hopi House on the Rim Trail. Special interpretive programs, walks and tours, celebrating the park’s colorful history, occured throughout the day.
Listen the 90th Anniversary Audiocast by Park Superintendent, Steve Martin.
in a new media player. (PDF)
- Park Sought Comments on Future Operation of Train Service
Between September 4, 2008 and October 4, 2008, The National Park Service accepted public comments on the future operation of train service within Grand Canyon National Park. The NPS proposes to allow up to three round-trip passenger trains per day from Williams to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and one round-trip evening train ride per day from the South Rim to a short distance outside of the park. Read the Scoping Letter.
- The First Grand Canyon Marathon took place on November 15, 2008. The runners made their way through a course starting on the historic Hermit Road, west to the Mary Jane Colter structure, Hermit's Rest, and then south toward the town of Tusayan. Learn More...
- Celebrate Wildlife Day - Was held on Saturday November 1, 2008
The National Park Service shared the wonders of Grand Canyon wildlife and the world of wildlife biology while honoring the life of wildlife biologist Eric York. Read about the next Celebrate Wildlife Day that will be held during May, 2009.
- The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Symposium:
Was held here May 30 - June 1, 2008, Grand Canyon National Park.
- The 2008 High-Flow Experiment
from Glen Canyon Dam: March 2008
- South Rim Transportation Plan EA
Public comment closed March 19, 2008
Substantive comments submitted by the deadline will be addressed in a decision document, which is anticipated to be signed and released to the public by early summer, 2008.
May 29, 2008
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Did You Know?
Pres. Teddy Roosevelt said of the Grand Canyon, "Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American should see."
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Last Updated: May 04, 2009 at 14:53 EST |
