Home | Categories | National Parks | Hotels | Site Map | Photographs | QTVR | Whats New? | More... ARIZONA Index | Introduction | Photographs | QTVR | Driving Distances | Map | Weather | Hotels Lipan 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 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 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 > The South Rim > Viewpoints > Lipan Point Unkar Delta, beyond Escalante Butte Lipan Point lies half a mile north of the main scenic drive, reached by a spur road that climbs 80 feet to the parking area, on top of a small summit that would have a 360° view were it not for the pine woodland on the east side. The starting point for the 8 mile Tanner Trail is located a short distance back from the parking area. The point looks down over Seventyfive Mile Creek and its tributaries, which run beneath a thin ridge connected to Escalante Butte and joins the Colorado between two of the over 100 sets of rapids on the river - Nevills and Hance (which are just visible to the west). Just downstream of Hance Rapids is the start of the inner canyon gorge, where the Colorado first cuts in to the prehistoric Vishnu Schist. Pinal Point cliffs South of Seventyfive Mile Creek is a good view of the mostly vertical, 2,000 foot cliffs below Pinal Point, the next named promontory along the rim. Moving round to the east, beyond Escalante Butte is the Unkar Delta at the end of Unkar Creek, a region of banded sandstone eroded into rounded hills, quite different to the usual angular rocks of the Grand Canyon. The Colorado here encounters another series of rapids but also flows around several wide, sandy bends that would make good camping locations for groups rafting down the river, except that the whole area is closed to protect many well preserved Anasazi ruins that are found on the slopes around the creek. Next Points West: Pinal Point East: Navajo Point Ravens at Lipan Point The view west Seventyfive Mile Creek Back to Top Arizona | California | Colorado | Nevada | New Mexico | Texas | Utah | Wyoming | Slot Canyons | Travelogue | SOUTHWEST

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