ParkColorado Plateau
Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim
A thousand feet higher, deep in spruce-fir forest, with a fraction of the visitors. Open mid-May to mid-October only.
- Managed by
- National Park Service
- From Phoenix
- 6 hr 30 min north
- Entry
- Park entrance fee, 7 days
Before you go
Fees, access, and what people get wrong here.
- The season is short, roughly mid-May to mid-October. Highway 67 closes with the first heavy snow.
- It is about a four-and-a-half hour drive from the South Rim despite being ten miles away across the canyon.
- At over 8,000 feet it is far cooler and greener than the South Rim, with spruce and aspen on the rim itself.