The Grand Canyon- North Rim

This past weekend, we took a trip to the North Rim of The Grand Canyon.  WOW! What an amazing site.  The pictures don't quite do justice to the majesty of it.  The following pictures are the pictures taken from the Grand Canyon North Rim visitor center.

That same night we took a drive on one of the dirt roads not far from our campsite outside of the park.  This road had lots of lookouts according to the map, but they were quite a ways away and we were limited on daylight so we never made it to any of the actual lookouts.  But we did make it to the tower that we had heard about.  There were 151 stairs to the top of this tower.  The views were amazing and we happened to get up there in time for the sunset. On this trail we were also looking for a good place to shoot sometime over the weekend. 

The next day we took a drive to all the other lookouts along the north rim.  The lookouts included: Bright Angel Point Trail, Cape Royal Trail, Cliff Springs Trail, and Roosevelt Point Trail.

That afternoon we went back along the dirt road from the previous night to the area we found for shooting.  Daniel is the cause of this damaged milk bottle.

Later that night, we took a dirt road to the Marble Viewpoint not far from our campground outside the park.  We saw a number of animals that I've never seen before in the wild.  We saw lots of deer and lots of wild turkeys.  But we also saw a porcupine.  However, I must say that I think this is the largest bug that I've seen dead on my car before.  If you can't tell (I couldn't) it is a dragonfly.

Anyway....On to the views of Marble Point.

On our way back down we saw this deer just looking at us. 

The next day we went off roading along a trial that would take us to Point Sublime.  On this trail we saw two of the famous silver ghosts of the north rim, otherwise known as the Kaibab squirrel.

These two pictures are from a little overlook on the way to the point.

The rest of these pictures are at the point.

This last picture is of the kids making noise with their birds at the campsite.