Home | Categories | National Parks | Hotels | Site Map | Photographs | QTVR | Whats New? | More... ARIZONA Index | Introduction | Photographs | QTVR | Driving Distances | Map | Weather | Hotels Grandview Point, Grand Canyon National Park Sites in Arizona NPS - Landscapes Canyon de Chelly Chiricahua Grand Canyon Lake Mead Organ Pipe Petrified Forest Saguaro Sunset Crater NPS - Historic Sites Casa Grande Ruins Coronado Montezuma Castle Pipe Spring Tonto Tumacacori Tuzigoot Walnut Canyon Wupatki Other Places Apache Trail Ironwood Forest NM Meteor Crater Route 66 Sedona Sonoran Desert NM Tonto NF Vermilion Cliffs NM More Locations... Agua Fria Alamo Lake Bartlett Reservoir Beaver Dam Mnts Bill Williams River Coal Mine Canyon Copper Creek Coronado Trail Coyote Buttes Fish Creek Granite Mountain Kaiser Spring Kofa NWR Lees Ferry Lost Dutchman Mount Lemmon Patagonia Lake Pearce Ferry Red Rock Roosevelt Lake Sabino Canyon San Carlos Lake South Mountain Park Superstition Mountains Sycamore Canyon Tombstone Tonto Creek Tonto Natural Bridge West Clear Creek Arizona Site Map Site Search Enter your search terms this site all the web Submit search form Grand Canyon National Park > South Rim > Viewpoints > Grandview Point Mesa between Grapevine and Cottonwood creeks The southernmost point on Grand Canyon's south rim is Grandview, reached by a one mile side road, and looking out over a wide bend in the Colorado half way between Desert View and Grand Canyon Village. This is also the point furthest from the river and so with the largest area of intervening buttes and ravines; the Colorado is 4 miles distant, and the cliffs at the rim are generally less steep than at other, closer overlooks, allowing a relatively easy trail to descend into the canyon (Grandview), though this does not go all the way to the river as the granite cliffs of the inner gorge are too sheer. The course of the Grandview Trail is quite evident from the rim, as it descends along the side of a narrow ridge towards Horseshoe Mesa, a U-shaped formation between Cottonwood Creek to the west and Hance Creek to the east, and once the site of a copper mine. Further west is the branched drainage of Grapevine Creek, which meets the river at a lengthy set of rapids though these too are out of sight - the only glimpse of the Colorado from Grandview Point is quite far to the northeast, at the mouth of Tanner Canyon. The best views at the point are found a short distance down the Grandview Trail, since the official overlook is slightly obstructed by trees. Grandview is quite a high elevation point (7,400 feet) so receives more rainfall and hence the woodland is taller and denser, containing a mix of oak, ponderosa pine and pinyon pine. Before the construction of El Tovar Lodge near Garden Canyon, Grandview was the first place along the rim to be developed for tourists, with facilities including a hotel built in 1895, but this became disused after only a few years of operation, and little trace remains today. Next Points West: Shoshone Point East: Moran Point Grapevine Creek The view northeast Back to Top Arizona | California | Colorado | Nevada | New Mexico | Texas | Utah | Wyoming | Slot Canyons | Travelogue | SOUTHWEST

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