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Grand Canyon and surrounding country

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Uncle Jimmy Owens' Cave

Uncle Jimmy Owens' Cave

Update July 14, 25: This area burned in the Dragon Bravo wildfire. Up on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, approximately 0.25 miles before the Widforss Trailhead (named for the early 20th-century Swedish-American painter Gunnar Widforss), a faint path heads across a meadow and leads to a small

Petroglyph Wash Arrastra and Petroglyphs

Petroglyph Wash Arrastra and Petroglyphs

A "wagon wheel" style arrastra in the backcountry of Lake Mead National Recreation Area? I had to see it for myself. I'd read about this site years ago in an old NPS report, and the combination of a rare milling method and petroglyphs along the way

Toroweap Overlook

Toroweap Overlook

High above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is the Toroweap Overlook. It is the steepest cliff in the canyon, with a 3,000-foot drop to the river below. It is an incredible view and landscape. It is worth the journey to reach it. The overlook is a day-use-only

Nampaweap Petroglyphs

Nampaweap Petroglyphs

Tucked away in the juniper-dotted canyons of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northwestern Arizona next to Mount Trumbull lies one of the region's most extensive collections of rock art - the Nampaweap Petroglyphs. Scattered across dark basalt boulders are thousands of petroglyphs - not the handful you

Paiute Cave Pictographs

Paiute Cave Pictographs

A set of Virgin Anasazi pictographs is inside a collapsed lava tube in the Arizona Strip. They believed that caves were the entrance to the spirit world. This is a sacred place. The pictographs are protected from the elements by the cave ceiling, and as such, they are particularly vibrant.

Grand Wash Cliffs Colony

Grand Wash Cliffs Colony

I met up with legendary explorer Roger Mitchell to explore the Grand Wash Cliffs of Arizona. It was a surprise to both of us when we found an abandoned group of cabins tucked back in the woods. The cabins appear to have been built and then abandoned in the 1970s

Law’s Spring

Law’s Spring

Law's Spring is a rare perennial water source in the high ponderosa country south of the Grand Canyon. Native Americans knew it long before any wagon rolled through. Petroglyphs still mark the basalt walls around the tank. For a few decades in the mid-1800s, it became a critical