Tag: Day Trips To The Grand Canyon

Day Trips To The Grand Canyon If you want to take a grand canyon tour it is best to make the plans a good time before you actually want to take a trip.  This is because the grand canyon is actually quite remote isn’t able to easily reached from any major city.  Not that it is a difficult drive, but if you are not used to driving in the desert than it can seem a lot harder than really is.  When you drive from Las Vegas to the grand canyon you’ll exit Nevada pretty quickly and enter Arizona next.  One of the things that people don’t seem to have a good grasp on when they try to make this drive is that the majority of the trip in between the two destinations is open desert.  This means that the landscape looks pretty much the same for the entirety of the trip, which can be quite difficult if you’re not used to driving for long distances without visual stimulation.  Once you have crossed the Hoover dam, you’ll see almost nothing that looks any different than open desert for almost all of the trip.  When you are going to the south rim of the grand canyon, is going to take about 5 hours of driving like this to get there.  The distance between the two is about 270 miles, and even if he decides to take the shorter trip to the grand canyon west it is still about 130 miles.  It is not suggested that you visit the grand canyon west do the fact that it is not part of the national park system is actually located on Indian reservation land.  In addition, many people are unaware that they are not allowed to drive a rental car from Las Vegas to the