How big is Grand Canyon National Park?

Answer 1

The answer to this question depends on how you want to measure it. Here are several answers from the Grand Canyon National Park web site: (http://www.grand.canyon.national-park.com/size.htm) The park includes over a million acres of land: 1,218,376 acres / 493,077 hectares, or 1,904 square miles / 4931 square km. Most people measure the canyon in Colorado River miles. By that standard, Grand Canyon is 277 miles / 446 km long. It begins at Lees Ferry and ends at Grand Wash Cliffs. The Colorado River is longer than Grand Canyon, flowing 1,450 miles / 2,333 km from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Gulf of California in Mexico. Grand Canyon is only one of many beautiful canyons carved by the river. Others include Cataract Canyon and Glen Canyon, the latter now lying beneath the waters of Lake Powell. Most people agree, however, that Grand Canyon is the most spectacular. No other place in the world looks quite like it. Width and depth of the canyon vary from place to place. At the South Rim, near Grand Canyon Village, it's a vertical mile (about 5,000 feet / 1,524 m) from rim to river, or 7 miles / 11.3 km by trail. At its deepest, it is 6,000 vertical feet / 1,829 m from rim to river. The width of the canyon at Grand Canyon Village is 10 miles / 16 km (rim to rim), though in places it is as much as 18 miles / 29 km wide. A tripto the bottom of the canyon and back (on foot or by mule) is a two day journey. Rim to rim hikers generally take three days one way to get from the North Rim to the South Rim. A trip through Grand Canyon by raft can take two weeks or longer. Experiencedbackpackers have spent weeks in the more remote areas of the canyon.

Answer 2

It is very big. It has a length of 277 miles, a depth of 6,000 feet at the deepest and has a width of between 4 and 17 miles, The National Park in which it resides covers an area of 1,217,403 acres. It is not the longest., deepest or widest Canyon in the world, but it is spectacular eye candy and is among the most visited National Parks in the World. It is easily accessed, provides a wide range of amenities, provides trails with a variety of difficulty, is easily reached by road, rail and aviation. It is reasonably close to both of the US major cities of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona, and for the most part, it has maintained a natural setting with a minimum of human intervention,

Answer 3

277 river miles (446km) long, up to 18 miles (29km) wide, and a mile (1.6km/5,280 ft) deep.

Answer 4

The Grand Canyon ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles (6.4 to 29 km).

Answer 5

At it's deepest it is (approx.)-1 mile tall. Also you mean deep, not tall.

Answer 6

Ir has a length of 277 river miles and a rim to rim width of from 4 to 18 miles.

Answer 7

It is 277 river miles long, 4 to 18 miles wide and as much as 6,000 feet deep.

Answer 8

the canyon is 69 :) miles long

Answer 9

It covers 1,902 square miles.