| Feb 8 | North Rim Closed for the Season - date posted Feb 8, 2010 On November 30, 2009, the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park closed for the season. The North Rim campground is available for winter camping, but is only accessible via inner canyon trails from the South Rim or by cross-country skiing and snowsh.. |
| Feb 8 | Hermit Trailhead Access - date posted Feb 8, 2010 From March 1 to November 30, Hermit Road is closed to private vehicles. A numerical code is required to open the gate giving access to Hermit Road. Hikers with a valid backcountry permit who are beginning or ending their hike via the Hermit Trail wil.. |
| Feb 8 | South Kaibab Trail Reconstruction - date posted Feb 8, 2010 On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, the National Park Service began a project to reconstruct the South Kaibab Trail. The reconstruction project will take approximately two to four years. The National Park Service made a decision to temporarily divert commercia.. |
| Feb 8 | South Kaibab Trailhead Access - date posted Feb 8, 2010 Hikers must access the South Kaibab Trailhead by shuttle bus. There are two options. A special early morning "hiker's express" shuttle leaves the Bright Angel Lodge and then picks up passengers at the Backcountry Information Center before going direc.. |
| Feb 8 | Drinking Water in the Cross-Canyon Corridor - date posted Feb 8, 2010 Purified drinking water is available at Bright Angel Campground and Indian Garden Campground. As always, the South Kaibab Trail is dry - no water of any kind. The list below reflects seasonal changes and will be updated when water is turned on or off.. |
| Feb 8 | Hiking Podcast Updated - date posted Feb 8, 2010 The Backcountry Information Center has updated the Hiking Podcast with a February 2010 update. Visit the Grand Canyon Podcast Directory ( www.nps.gov/grca/photosmultimedia/podcasts.htm ) for more information or to subscribe. Additionally the update c.. |
| Feb 8 | Drinking Water outside the Cross-Canyon Corridor - date posted Feb 8, .. There is one good thing to report about winter at the canyon: the ephemeral, seasonal springs that only produce water when it’s cool are flowing, so water issues have temporarily receded into the background until next spring, with one important excep.. |
| Feb 8 | Road Conditions for Remote Trailheads - date posted Feb 8, 2010 There is currently a hard closure in effect for the South Bass Trailhead - no vehicular access is possible. Due to poor, weather-related driving conditions, Kaibab National Forest has closed Forest Roads 328 (from Tusayan to the Havasupai Reservatio.. |
| Feb 8 | Trail Conditions - date posted Feb 8, 2010 CROSS-CANYON CORRIDOR All three Corridor trails, that is the Bright Angel and the South and North Kaibab Trails, are open, but snow packed, icy, and slick in the top three miles or so; caution and proper footwear is certainly indicated. Instep cramp.. |
| Feb 8 | Winter in the Canyon - date posted Feb 8, 2010 Currently, we find ourselves recovering from a series of storms that dropped 52 inches of snow on the South Rim during the last week of January. This was the second highest snowfall week in Northern Arizona history. So far this winter we have receiv.. |