Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim) 

July 10, 2018

North Entrance

The North Entrance to Grand Canyon National Park is located about 30 miles south of Jacob Lake, Arizona, on state highway 67. You’ll need to pay your park entrance fee here, and you can also pick up park information guides. From the North Entrance, it’s a few more miles to the North Rim itself.

North Rim Visitor Center

The water filling station is located next to the restrooms and is only available seasonally.

Designated water-bottle filling stations have been installed in high-traffic areas on both rims of the park, making it easier than ever before to refill your water bottle.

Like the existing water fountains and sinks in buildings and facilities throughout the park, the new filling stations provide free Grand Canyon spring water from the park’s approved water supply, located at Roaring Springs.

A variety of reusable souvenir water bottles are available at all of the park’s major retail outlets.

Bright Angle Trail 

This easy walking trail follows a paved path along a North Rim ridgeline from the Grand Canyon Lodge. The nearby Roaring Springs is surprisingly audible from the trailhead, and makes a good side trip for visitors wanting to see the proliferous water source. Quickly leaving the shady forest, the trail remains fairly level through open areas studded with stunted trees and grasses. Some of the best North Rim panoramas are available from this easy trail, sometimes making it a bit crowded. There is no water available along the trail.

Vista Encantada

Brady Butte, which towers above a section of Nankoweap Creek, is among the most prominent sights from this North Rim overlook known as the “Enchanted Vista.”

Roosevelt Point

President Theodore Roosevelt helped make Grand Canyon National Park a reality, and this North Rim overlook was named in his honor in 1990. The most prominent feature you see is 8,388-foot Tritle Peak, a naked outcrop of white Kaibab limestone surrounded by pine forest. Looking east into the Kwagunt Valley you’ll see Kwagunt Creek, which runs off toward the horizon and into an unusually open section of the canyon.

Angles Window 

This natural arch offers a keyhole view of the Colorado River, best visible from a side path on the trail to Cape Royal. You also can walk the half-mile trail over the arch and out to the tip of this narrow peninsula of Kaibab limestone for different perspectives on the canyon.

If you’re afraid of heights, note that the trail over the arch is narrow, and that 1,000-foot drops fall away on either side.

Cape Royal 

A 270-degree panorama of the Grand Canyon is your reward for making the long trip out to Cape Royal — the most sweeping canyon views of any overlook on the north or south rim. Looking across 10 miles of canyon you may be able to spy the location of Grand Canyon Village on the opposite side — part of miles of the south rim you can see from here. Look for landmarks like Grandview Point, the Sinking Ship, and Horseshoe Mesa, among others. 

Other prominent canyon features visible from Cape Royal include Wotan’s Throne and Vishnu Temple in the foreground, and Unkar Creek, which meets a sliver of the Colorado River in your view to the east.

Walhalla Overlook

This overlook gives you a birds-eye view of a bend in the Colorado River in the floodplain of the Unkar Delta. It’s probably best known as the location for daily Ranger-led tours on archeology. Native Americans who lived in this area for thousands of years spent summers on the rim and winters in the warm Unkar Delta in the canyon.

Point Imperial 

Point Imperial is the highest point in Grand Canyon National Park, with a peak standing at 8,803 feet. This popular North Rim overlook gives you views of Boundary Ridge and Saddle Mountain to the north and, within the canyon, Nankoweap Creek, Mount Hayden, Hancock Butte, and Alsap Butte.

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