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4 unusual facts about Grand Canyon National Park


Grand Canyon National Park

The highway enters the park through the South Entrance, near Tusayan, Arizona, and heads eastward, leaving the park through the East Entrance.

John Verkamp

His family has operated a store at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park for three generations, since 1906.

Prodoxus gypsicolor

It is found in the Kingston Range of the north-eastern Mojave Desert and possibly the Grand Canyon National Park in central-northern Arizona.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

The National Park Service in 2003 approved for sale in the Grand Canyon National Park bookstore Grand Canyon: A Different View; a book that presents the formation of the Grand Canyon as a result of Biblical events.


Alex Halone House

Alex and his son Eugene worked together from 1928 to 1935, doing stonemasonry at Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.

Beefalo

After seeing thousands of cattle die in a Kansas blizzard in 1886, Charles "Buffalo" Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, Kansas, also worked to cross buffalo and cattle at a ranch near the future Grand Canyon National Park, with the hope the animals could survive the harsh winters.

Bright Angel Creek

Bright Angel Creek is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park at the end of the Bright Angel Trail on the north side of the Colorado River.

Eugene Kingman

Early in his career (he was in his third year at Yale), he was commissioned by Horace M. Albright to paint seven paintings of park scenes at Sequoia, Mt. Rainier, Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Crater Lake.

Levi F. Noble

He also is remembered for his studies of Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks of the Grand Canyon and as the first to prepare a detailed geologic map of a large part of Grand Canyon National Park.

Tour-Mate Systems

Founder Neil Poch formed the company in response to not being able to find an audio tour while on vacation in 1988 and for the past 20 years Tour-Mate audio tours and products have been featured at prominent attractions such as Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and other varying locations around the world.

U.S. Route 180

Four National Parks can be accessed on the highway, Grand Canyon National Park, Petrified Forest National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and Carlsbad Caverns National Park.


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