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Category: Grand Canyon National Park South Rim

Sunset thru the RV door

01 Sunset from Trailer Village SR GRCA NP AZ (1024x768)

While at Grand Canyon last weekend I missed quite a few sunsets due to the long hours of the History Symposium schedule, right on through banquet dinner speakers.  Sunday I finally got a chance to visit with a friend who lives in a RV at the park because she works there.  And this was our goodnight gift.

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Going to the South Rim Grand Canyon

1 Bradshaw Mts from SR89 N Prescott NF AZ (1024x768)
When I’m going to the South Rim of Grand canyon my journey starts off with two routes to Prescott.  The Spar road over the Bradshaw Range offers spectacular deep valley views on one side and steep rocky walls on the other.  Hugging the contour of soft folds at 35mph maximum means a slow ride.
01 Kirkland Bar & Steakhouse Iron Springs Rd S Kirkland AZ pano
Option two, Iron Springs Road crosses an open grazing landscape dotted with scrub and oaks then over gently rolling hills into historic Kirkland.  Don’t blink you’ll miss it.
01a Gas station Skull Valley AZ
Next up a gentle curving grade through piles of rounded granite that level off through more ranch land and into Skull Valley, a quaint little place along a mostly dry wash with some of the biggest most ancient poplars I’ve ever seen.
01b Prescott ahead Iron Springs Rd Prescott AZ (1024x512)
The road flattens out along a wide fingered ridge top before climbing over the foothills on the western edge of the Bradshaw Mountains.
02 Pioneer Parkway E Prescott AZ (1024x275)
And suddenly, there is Prescott below, and Mt Humphreys beyond.  North from Prescott State Route 89 travels like a rippled ribbon through chaparral and juniper/pinyon 50 miles to Interstate 40, then I head east towards Flagstaff.
03 Mts behind Williams AZ from I40 E (1024x436)
In 20 miles the second Williams exit leads to where the train leaves northbound to Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim. Also the exit for State Route 64 which also takes you to the canyon.
04 Mt Humphreys Rt 66 Flagstaff AZ (1024x535)
But I continue on as I have a lunch date with two very dear lady friends in Flagstaff.  (Sorry no photos of them as I Always seem to forget to take photos of people.)
05 Mt Humphreys SR180 AZ (1024x765)
After lunch I continue my journey to the canyon on State Route 180 skirting the southwest side of Mt. Humphreys.
06 Meadows & pines SR180 W AZ (1024x661)
Interspersed patches of open ranch lands amongst the ponderosa pines stretch far ahead.
07 Red Butte from SR64 N AZ (1024x636)
About an hour’s drive to State Route 64 then north past Red Butte towards the canyon.
08 Sunset GRCA SR AZ (1024x768)
Arrived in time to register for the Grand Canyon History Symposium, check into my room and watch this glorious sunset while unloading my truck.
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No place like home

 

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First home or second home, I love them both.  This weekend at Grand Canyon National Park certainly felt like a homecoming.  The History Symposium never stopped being of vast interest.  Today I leave the canyon for my other home. But not until after I visit the Kolb Studio exhibit.
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