High Mountain Doings

From 8200 feet along one side of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in central Colorado, my blog is about many things: travel including river and bicycle trips, and other experiences as well. The focus is on photography, not lots of text.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Toroweap Overlook


Toroweap Overlook is a spectacular place on the north rim of the lower Grand Canyon. You get there on a 61 mile dirt road from near Fredonia, AZ (or on another branch from near Colorado City, AZ). About 55 miles of that road is in fine shape, but the last few are darn near 4WD miles over rock ledges and other rough places. I did drive a VW bug there about 40 years ago. Used to be you could camp right on the edge of the canyon, but now there's a campground back about half a mile--too bad, but now you can worry less about finding a campsite. Even in the campground, it helps to have 4WD. Patty and I took my 4WD Toyota pickup, which does very well.

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