Day 8 Grand Canyon Again

So Friday we went to the Dessert View side of the Canyon. It is 20 miles from the main visitor centre towards Cameron AZ and the North Rim. This time of year you can’t get to the North Rim because of Snow. When looking at the dryness of the area it is a little hard to believe that they have snow. We did see a little bit of snow on some of the cliff sides but we did find out that this year they have had about as much snow as we have had in Creston. A couple of small dumps and then it disappears. We did notice that it was quite windy and a little chilly but we only needed a light coat.

The main stop on the Dessert view is the watch tower. This is a building that was designed by Mary Colter. She was one of the few Female architects of her day. She is known for creating the 1922 Phantom Ranch buildings at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and five structures on the south rim of the Grand Canyon: the Hopi House (1905), Hermit's Rest (1914), the observatory Lookout Studio (1914), the 70-foot Desert View Watchtower (1932) with its hidden steel structure, and the Bright Angel Lodge All her buildings in the Grand Canyon are considered National Landmarks.

The watch tower and Hermit’s Rest buildings both have gift stores in them, they have local native art, jewelry and your basic gift store items.

After the Dessert View we headed back to the south rim to visit all the points of view that we missed the first day. I also managed to do a few virtual caches along the way. As I said yesterday if you get a chance everyone should visit here, it is worth the trip.

We finally headed back on the road again by 3pm and headed towards Kingman for the night. I used my Wyndham Rewards APP again, I discovered that all MacDonalds have free WiFi . So we found a Knight’s Inn for $39 with a King sized bed. It was definitely an older hotel but it was clean and at that price you can’t complain.