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July 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Grand Canyon Celebrates<br />
Centennial<br />
By: Kathy Manney / Around Our World<br />
It’s a dazzling geological wonder created by a<br />
timeless river. It entices more than five-million<br />
visitors annually. With so many taking advantage of the outdoors<br />
experience, Grand Canyon National Park is Arizona’s most popular<br />
tourist attraction.<br />
President Woodrow<br />
Wilson established<br />
Grand Canyon<br />
National Park in<br />
<strong>19</strong><strong>19</strong>. To celebrate<br />
the park’s centennial,<br />
let’s look at its<br />
grander and history.<br />
One of the natural<br />
wonders of the world,<br />
the Grand Canyon<br />
averages ten miles<br />
across, a mile deep<br />
and more than two<br />
hundred miles long.<br />
It could make the Egyptian pyramids seem lost in its depths.<br />
The Colorado River established its course millions of years ago. The<br />
river continues to erode and form the canyon where separate layers of<br />
rock mark each passage of millions of years.<br />
The Anasazi or the “Ancient Ones”, as they were known by other<br />
tribes, lived there before disappearing without a trace. The Anasazi were<br />
accomplished at building ingenious stone cliff ladders.<br />
An enemy starting up the cliffs on the wrong foot would discover<br />
halfway up that they were without a grip, unable to ascend or descend.<br />
By A.D. 1000, prehistoric Pueblo Indians occupied the canyon.<br />
In 1868, the name “Grand Canyon” was first used on maps. Then<br />
in 1869, Civil War veteran Major John Wesley Powell departed at Green<br />
River, Wyoming, becoming the first to journey through the entire Grand<br />
Canyon.<br />
Major Powell made a second, more “scientific” exploration in 1871-<br />
72. His publication The Exploration of the Colorado River of the West,<br />
launched interest in the Grand Canyon and early tourism.<br />
John Hance introduced mule rides into the canyon’s Old Hance Trail<br />
in 1886. And in 1897, John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, visited the<br />
Grand Canyon and championed for its designation as a national park.<br />
Arizona became the forty-eighth state in <strong>19</strong>12 and in <strong>19</strong><strong>19</strong><br />
automobiles were first permitted to drive on the Grand Canyon’s west<br />
Rim Drive. That same year, exactly 50-years since Major Powell’s first<br />
exploration, the Grand Canyon became an unrivaled national park.<br />
In 20<strong>19</strong>, you are invited to visit and celebrate the park’s centennial.<br />
Kathy Manney enjoys visiting interesting places and being an<br />
Adventure Diva. Her “Must See” travel journeys continue - always<br />
with enthusiasm.
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