Grand Canyon West

While most folks who visit the Grand Canyon visit the location I showed you before, north of Williams, AZ, there is another place to see the efforts of the Colorado River to carve the rocks into interesting shapes. This place, however, is not a national park. It is on the Hualapai Reservation and one must pay for the privilege.

On the way there, the road passed through Arizona's Joshua Tree Forest. It is located just outside the reservation and you can see the great stone formations carved by the river in the background.

The Joshua trees fill the area here and I only had to walk to the edge of the parking area to find these specimens.

But a few miles up the road, I came to the entrance to this portion of the canyon. At Grand Canyon West, you park in a large lot, buy a ticket, board a bus, and ride the remainder of the way to the lookout points. There is a skywalk at one of the locations but since no photos from the skywalk are allowed it is relatively pricey, I opted to stay on the ground. The scenery here is quite different from that in the National Park mostly because we are a lot closer to the formations here.