From the high-desert plateau to the Colorado River, earn your pizza on this epic journey through history (and prehistory).
Almost 2 billion years ago the rocks that form the lowest layers of the Grand Canyon were laid down by volcanoes that once covered a region across what is now northern Arizona. For thousands of centuries these rocks were buried under layer after layer of sedimentary rocks, which were lifted to form the Colorado Plateau somewhere between 70-30 million years ago. Over the last 5 million years or so, the Colorado River has eaten its way down through this enormous stack of lithographic pancakes to carve a canyon a mile deep.
Need to know:
- Time: 6-12 hours
- Effort: 9/10 (at least)
- Expense: $20 per day US National Parks Fee (I heartily rAnnual Pass
The Grand Canyon is huge, and nothing I can write or post here will sufficiently explain or illustrate that fact. Photos cannot do it justice. Clever diagrams with stacked skyscrapers or double-decker buses are meaningless. You have to be there and see it with your own eyes to understand the vastness of the landscape in front of you, and even then you it is almost too much to take in.
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