TRAVEL
March 11, 2007 | Christopher Reynolds, Times Staff Writer
LADIES and gentlemen, boys, girls and bored gamblers: Let me remind you that in just 17 days, barring construction delays, you and I will be able to slide on booties and tread upon the Hualapai Nation's wacky new tourist attraction, the glass-floored Skywalk, which will jut out over a western edge of the Grand Canyon, about 120 miles east of Las Vegas. Of course, if you don't find the Wile E. Coyote perspective or the $74.95 price tag tempting, you may be inclined to turn away.
OPINION
January 11, 2012
Nothing spoils a good hike through the wilderness like radioactive streams. That's one of the reasons all Americans, but particularly Arizonans who benefit from the tourism magnet that is the Grand Canyon, should be thankful to the Obama administration for its decision Monday to withdraw about 1 million acres in the vicinity of the national park from new mining claims for the next 20 years. Congressional Republicans, led by politicians such as Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake who are heavily backed by the mining industry, turned the Grand Canyon decision into an important plank of a broad anti-environmental campaign last year, throwing up numerous bills and amendments to prevent the Interior Department from withdrawing these lands from new claims.
TRAVEL
January 11, 2009 | Avital Binshtock
GRAND CANYON, ARIZ. By rail to the gorgeous gorge Fall deeply in love as the Grand Canyon Railway's four-day "Romance to the Rim" package whisks the two of you to comfort at the canyon's edge. Itinerary: Round-trip travel from Williams to the South Rim. Dates: Through Jan. 29.
TRAVEL
September 18, 2011
Reading Susan Spano's story ["Ancient Rock, Eternal Truths," Sept. 11] brought back memories of 30 years ago. I had a Norwegian student visiting, and we were staying at El Tovar in Grand Canyon with my husband and kids. One morning after breakfast, the student and I decided to hike a little ways down the Bright Angel Trail. It was a beautiful day, and we were full of energy. We had an apple and an orange for nourishment, and off we went after leaving a note for my husband. Enjoying the lovely scenery, we did not realize that we had passed the ranch, garden and plateau until we found ourselves overlooking the Colorado River, where we met three Swedish students, to my guest's delight.
TRAVEL
April 17, 2011 | By Ken Van Vechten, Special to the Los Angeles Times
"Is this the trail? This can't be right," a couple asks as my wife, Terri, and I walk by, and though it's unclear whether we're nosing in on a dialogue a deux or responding to a legit request for assistance, we stop. The first part of the hike to Waipoo Falls, I explain, is along unimproved Halemanu Road, leading to several homesteads and, I assure them, silently praying, the trailhead. "And the waterfall is after that?" I nod assent. Not realizing that I'm also a newbie, off they stride, as confident as Columbus into the unknown.
OPINION
September 24, 1989
Your editorial on air cleanup in the Grand Canyon ("Grand Canyon Pollution Cleanup," Sept. 13) states the city "must be willing to share the cost of cleaning up pollution it causes elsewhere." While we agree with your statement, we also want to be assured that the funds spent on additional cleanup equipment for the Navajo Generating Station will indeed result in greater visibility at the Grand Canyon. As a 21% owner of the coal-fueled power plant, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers would be responsible for a fifth of the costs for additional emissions control equipment, including flue gas scrubbers, if required by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)