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If you are going to tour the Grand Canyon, you are going to have to prepare. To put it mildly, it is pretty remote in it's location, and it is pretty far from just about everything. It's closest town is Page Arizona where you will be able to find hotels and even dog kennels to store your pets while you are out hiking, but unless you are from Nevada, Utah or Arizona the drive is probably going to be pretty difficult for you. The closest cities that support actual commercial airline traffic are Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, and both of these places are more than four hours drive from the Grand Canyon. Another thing to consider is that this means more than four hours driving a rental car that you are not used to, through the desert. The desert is pretty boring and anyone who has ever done a long desert drive can attest to the fact that four hours will seem like eight hours when everything looks the same. There is almost nothing in between the areas on the way except more desert, so be prepared for a trip that is pretty grueling.  If you plan on trying to come back the same night, you will be doing more than 9 hours driving in a single day, and having a good deal of time spent outside on that same day. Needless to say it isn't for the feint of heart. So what should you do? We suggest flying into Las Vegas from the airport closest to your home. Arrange one of our Grand Canyon tours that will start from your hotel f=room or a pickup place in the city, which will transport you to the Grand Canyon for a day of exploration and fun. You will camp

President Woodrow Wilson designated Grand Canyon as the 15th national park on Feb. 26, 1919, after decades of lobbying to protect the 277-mile gorge carved to a depth of more than a mile by the Colorado River. In it's first year as a national park, it was visited by about 38,000 people, and that number has gone up a little bit over the years. In 2018, more than 6.8 million people visited the canyon, most making the drive of about 280 miles from Las Vegas. On Tuesday, the Grand Canyon celebrates it's 100th year as a national park, and festivities are planned throughout the week to mark the occasion. If you are not lucky enough to be there during this historic period, there will be plenty of pictures being posted on social media accounts to make you feel as though you were there. Make note that this is celebrating 100 years of the designation as a national park, which includes only the actual national park area. If you accidentally take one of the many tours from Las Vegas to the west rim instead of the south rim, you will not be within the national park area and will not see any of the celebration activities. If you want to make sure that you are going to be visiting the actual Grand Canyon national park area, you must inquire with your tour operator that you are going to the south rim. All Bindlestiff Tours that visit the Grand Canyon as part of the larger tours, as well as our overnight tours, visit the south rim. The Grand Canyon national park itself is located outside Page Arizona and is roughly a 4 hour drive from Las Vegas. If you are unfamiliar with desert driving you are probably going to want to make

The Grand Canyon is one of the most popular destinations on earth, due to the fact that the sheer magnitude of the space between the canyon walls is unlike anything that most people have ever witnessed. The Grand Canyon is world renowned as potentially the most magnificent view on earth, and as a result there are an unbelievable amount of travelers to the location every year. The Grand Canyon is remote, located near Page AZ and ultimately accessible only by car or bus. This means that you are either going to have to drive there from your home directly, or fly into a location that can be used as a starting point for your driving trip. The starting point of choice for most travelers who are destined to see the Grand Canyon is Las Vegas. Las Vegas makes the most logical sense for the beginning of your Grand Canyon tour, simply because Las Vegas itself is appropriately positioned in the middle of the longest stretches of desert between occupied areas. Las Vegas was born as a stopover town where you could reload with supplies and rest before continuing on your journey to the destination you were traveling to, but once air traffic allowed you to fly into Las Vegas from other places, then it made more sense to use as the starting point in order to cut drive time down. In addition to this convenience, Las Vegas is also built as a tourist location so there are ample restaurants and hotels to choose from while you are here. Most people touring the Grand Canyon will allocate a few extra days to visit Las Vegas while they are here, combining the vacation into two parts. Once you have landed in Las Vegas, you have to decide if you are going to