Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 3, 1969

Grand Canyon National Park covers 1,100 square miles and has an altitude from 2,000 to 9,000 feet. The two centers of tourist interest, the North Rim and the South Rim, are a mere 10 airline miles apart, but 215 road miles distant from each other. This view is from Bright Angel Point on the North Rim of the canyon. Photograph gift of the Union Pacific Railroad.