Grand Canyon National Park

Excellent Canyon National Park is the United States' fifteenth most seasoned national park. Named an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, the recreation center is situated in northwestern Arizona. The recreation center's focal element is the Grand Canyon, a chasm of the Colorado River, which is frequently viewed as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.

Great Canyon was formally assigned a national park in 1919, however the point of interest had been understood to Americans for more than thirty years earlier. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt went to the site and said: "The Grand Canyon fills me with wonder. It is past examination—past portrayal; totally unparalleled all through the wide world... Give this extraordinary marvel of nature a chance to stay as it now seems to be. Do nothing to blemish its glory, sublimity and beauty. You can't enhance it. In any case, what you can do is to keep it for your kids, your youngsters' kids, and all who come after you, as the one awesome sight which each American ought to see."

The formation of the recreation center was an early achievement of the protection development. Its national park status may have foiled proposition to dam the Colorado River inside its limits. (Later, the Glen Canyon Dam would be constructed upriver.) In 1975, the previous Marble Canyon National Monument, which took after the Colorado River upper east from the Grand Canyon to Lee's Ferry, was made some portion of Grand Canyon National Park. In 1979, UNESCO announced the recreation center a World Heritage Site.

In 2010, Grand Canyon National Park was respected with its own coin under the America the Beautiful Quarters program.

It is one of the most established national parks in the United States and is home to the stunning Grand Canyon, a 1-mile profound chasm cut by the Colorado River.

Since a long time ago viewed as one of the common marvels of the world, guests run to see this extraordinary blend of land shading and erosional shapes. With Grand Canyon National Park Lodges giving the head in-park lodging at the South Rim with notable cabins like El Tovar, you'll find all that you have to arrange and make the most of your visit to the Grand Canyon.