South Rim Visitor Center is open today from 9 am to 4 pm. Follow link for a list of visitor services with hours of operation. Midday South Entrance lines are long. Arrive before 9 am or after 4 pm for shorter wait times. The North Rim reopens on May 15. More
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - Windy —South Rim High 56°F (13°C) —Phantom Ranch High 28°F (32°C)
Trail Alerts: Bright Angel Trail below Havasupai Gardens, including the Silver Bridge CLOSED. River Trail CLOSED. Plateau Point and Plateau Point Trail CLOSED. Hikers visit this link for inner canyon temperatures, heat risk and water availability. More
Whether you are a regular visitor, a national park traveler or virtual explorer, Grand Canyon National Park hopes that you are inspired to experience and connect with a national park that has inspired 100 years of stewardship and will continue to delight visitors and stewards for another 100 years! Come. Be Inspired. Go Grand.
Go Grand
On February 26, 2019, the Grand Canyon National Park celebrated 100 years since it's designation as a national park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Grand Canyon National Park welcomes approximately six million domestic and international visitors each year. After 100 years, whether its hiking a corridor trail, taking a stroll on the rim or enjoying the landscape from an overlook, the park continues to provide a space for all visitors to connect with the outdoors.
During 2019, Grand Canyon National Park commemorated the past and inspired future generations to experience, connect with, and protect the park's unique natural, cultural, and historic resources.
Grand Canyon National Park hopes that you are inspired to experience and connect with a park that has inspired 100 years of stewardship and will continue to delight visitors and stewards for another 100 years! Come. Be Inspired. Go Grand.
Centennial Logo
Creating and marketing an approved centennial product was a great way to be a part of Grand Canyon's Centennial Celebration, and show your appreciation for this special place. Grand Canyon Conservancy claims ownership of Grand Canyon's Centennial Logo and its use.
Learn more about Grand Canyon National Park's Centennial Themes and view the artwork. >
Click here to learn about each of these centennial themes.
Participate: Take the Grand Canyon Pledge!
Grand Canyon National Park staff are dedicated to protect Grand Canyon resources and help visitors have the best experience possible. But we need your help, find out more at A Grand Pledge.
Archive of 2019 Special Centennial Events
Every Grand Canyon experience is its own grand adventure - and during 2019, it was bigger than ever. Canyoneers from around the world celebrated Grand Canyon National Park's centennial anniversary with special events and programs at the park and throughout the state of Arizona.
Hopi House, Hermit's Rest, Lookout Studio and Desert View Watchtower are not only the best and least altered, but some of the only remaining works of architectural designer and interior decorator, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter.
The Chimney, Ooo-Ahh Point, Windy Ridge, the Red & Whites, the Tip-Off, the TrainWreck…For those who know and love the Kaibab Trail, the recitation of these names conjures up
images that are the stuff of longing, wonder, and enchantment.
Most aviators, I venture to say, would have been content to fly down into the canyon and make a safe landing. But not so Thomas. He was not satisfied with his performance until he had climbed back up again without landing and then dropped over the rim in a long tail-spin, which carried him nearly to the bottom, five thousand feet below...
I have had many a perilous adventure in my ten years of exploring in the
canyons of the Colorado River, but none so peculiar as one I passed through this
year (1899).
To the bottom of the Grand Canyon by automobile was probably the most
strenuous undertaking ever carried out in the annals of American motoring. To
make that trip and to return to the plateau thousands of feet above, all on the car's
own power, negotiating deep sand arroyos, frightfully steep grades, great boulder
filled gorges and slimy mud flats, is a feat extraordinary.
The adventure of the first party to cross from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other by pack train in 1902 have never been told. Here follows a brief statement of the circumstances. by F. E. Matthes, U.S. Geological Survey.
Photos from Centennial Week Celebrations.
On February 26, 2019, the Grand Canyon celebrates 100 years since it's designation as a national park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Grand Canyon welcomes approximately six million domestic and international visitors each year. After 100 years, whether its hiking a corridor trail, taking a stroll on the rim or enjoying the landscape from an overlook, Grand Canyon continues to provide a space for all visitors to connect with the outdoors.
