News on Grand Canyon National Park

Residents vote to incorporate Grand Canyon town

2010-03-09T21:15:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Residents of Grand Canyon gateway community vote overwhelmingly for incorporation</div><div><p>Early results show residents of a small Arizona community that serves as a gateway to the Grand Canyon's popular South Rim have voted to incorporate.</p><p>Tuesday's election was the second attempt to incorporate Tusayan...

Facts and figures about the post office

2010-03-02T11:15:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Delivering the mail takes trains, boats, planes and even mules</div><div><p>Facts about the Postal Service:</p><p>_ The post office moves mail on planes, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, hovercraft, street cars, bicycles, feet and even mules.</p><p>_ Those mules carry mail to Indians living at the bottom of the Grand Canyon<...

Travel Brief National Parks Visitation

2010-02-24T10:18:53Z

FILE - In this 2009, Aug. 16, file photo, President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia Obama, 11, Sasha Obama, 8, with Interpretive Park Ranger Scott Kraynak look out over Hopi Point as they tour the National Park Service during 2009, u...

New law allows loaded guns in national parks

2010-02-22T08:13:10Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Government: Loaded guns allowed in national parks, wildlife refuges as of Monday&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Loaded guns will be allowed in Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and other national parks under a new law that takes effect Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The law lets licensed gun owners brin...

Van slides over embankment in Grand Canyon park

2010-02-23T08:08:49Z

<div><p>Authorities say a van slid over the edge of a Grand Canyon National Park embankment, but the vehicle's six passengers got out before emergency workers arrived and no life-threatening injuries were reported.</p><p>The National Park Service says emergency crews responding to acci...

Grand Canyon N.P. Gets Stimulus Dollars To Re-Build Trails

2009-12-18T16:30:56Z

GRAND CANYON, AZ - JUNE 10: (BEST OF YEAR PACKAGE) National Park Service trail crew members prepare to repel down the side of a cliff while repairing a trail on June 10, 2009 in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Work began this week on a major federal stimulus funded project to repair ...

Park rangers recover man's body at Grand Canyon

2010-02-23T23:33:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Park officials: Man's body found 200 feet below South Rim at Grand Canyon</div><div><p>Officials at Grand Canyon National Park say a man's body has been found 200 feet below the canyon's South Rim.</p><p>Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge says the pa...

Grand Canyon to change backpacker permit system

2010-02-24T01:36:51Z

<div id="subtitle">Grand Canyon to change backpacker permit system</div><div><p>The Grand Canyon National Park is changing the system for getting backcountry permits.</p><p>Starting Feb. 1, 2010, the park will consider only written requests for backcountry permits four months in advance of trips.</p><p>...

Grand Canyon to change 'unfair' permit system

2010-02-24T01:47:04Z

<div id="subtitle">Grand Canyon to change competitive, 'unfair' process to get backpacking permits</div><div><p>Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.</p><p>Now...

Groups file suit to stop Grand Canyon uranium mine

2010-02-24T04:40:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Environmental groups sue to prevent uranium mine near Grand Canyon from opening</div><div><p>Environmental groups are suing the federal Bureau of Land Management over its decision to allow a uranium mine to reopen north of the Grand Canyon.</p>&...

Ariz. governor opposes halt on new mining claims

2010-02-24T11:03:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Arizona governor objects to federal halt on new mining claims near Grand Canyon</div><div><p>Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer objects to a ban on filing new mining claims on nearly 1 million acres of federal land in northern Arizona for two years while...

Study: Smokies' $800M tops in visitor spending

2010-02-24T13:10:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Study: Great Smoky Mountains' $800 million in visitor spending tops among national parks</div><div><p>A National Park Service study has ranked the Great Smoky Mountains as tops in visitor spending.</p><p>The study estimates the Smokies' 9 million vi...

New book: Life's take on 'Wonders of the World'

2010-02-24T13:37:41Z

<div id="subtitle">New book: Life's take on 'Wonders of the World'</div><div><p>There were seven wonders in the ancient world, and contests have been held to identify manmade and natural wonders of the modern world. Now a new book, "Life Wonders of the World," offers another take on the concept, profiling 50 wonders in six categories.</p><p>The book includes the original seven wonders, only one of which, the Grea...

Tired from a tough hike? Rescuers fear Yuppie 911

2010-02-24T14:36:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Yuppie 911 or legitimate life-saver? Rescue officials warn locator beacons abused by some</div><div><p>Last month two men and their teenage sons tackled one of the world's most unforgiving summertime hikes: the Grand Canyon's parched and searing Royal Arch Loop. Along with bedrolls and freeze-dried food, the inexperienced backpackers carri...

"Canyon" offers gruesome jolts, familiar story

2010-02-24T16:03:40Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When a young couple decides to leap off the beaten path to explore nature in all its rugged extremes, you know they are heading for the vacation from hell.</p><p>This formula has been reworked in such films as "A Perfect Getaway" and "Breakdown." In "The Canyon," a so-so...

ASK MR. SUN

2010-02-24T20:33:08Z

<div><p> Mr. Sun,</p><p>Can you tell me what the line of helicopters that arrives each night at sunset over Sunrise Mountain is and where they are going? They arrive in formation and make a turn at Newport Lofts downtown and fly south toward the Strip. We watch them and always wonder.</p><p>Don Sacramento</p><p> Were Madison, Shoshone, and Lewis begin in this raised section of land whose waters divide the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The Yellowstone River cuts a sort of US Mint list of new national park quarters, in order the coins will be produced</div><div><p>The U.S. Mint announced Wednesday that it will produce a series of quarters highlighting America's national parks, one per state and territory, beginning next year. The coins will be minted based on...