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Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon National Park is in northern Arizona, about four and a half hours from Las Vegas, and day trips from the Strip are among the most popular ways to see it. The Colorado River carved a 277 mile long canyon here, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep, its walls banded in red, orange, and gold. You can ride a mule down into the canyon on a guided trip, or hike it rim to rim, crossing the Colorado River on a footbridge at Phantom Ranch. Best season is spring and fall: March through May and September through November bring mild temperatures and clear views.

Grand Canyon National Park
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No other view on earth shows this much time at once. The canyon walls expose nearly two billion years of geological history, band after band, each layer a different era. You are not just looking at scenery, you are looking at the planet's memory. And it is monumental in scale, a mile deep and stretching beyond what the eye can take in.

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