Williams is a town on I40, about 30 miles west of Flagstaff, that is where highway 64 takes off and heads north to the Grand Canyon. Williams is a small town that you wouldn't look twice at, except for it's location close to the Grand Canyon and the fact that it's right on the old Route 66. From Williams it's a 53 mile drive through the desert to the Grand Canyon. Not an enjoyable ride but not that bad either. You have to get there somehow.
What can one say about the Grand Canyon? It's amazing! It's fantastic! There really aren't enough adjectives in the english language to adequately discribe it. The same goes for pictures. You can take hundreds or thousands of pictures and none of them will truly capture the beauty and grandure of the Grand Canyon. I'm displaying a few of the pictures we took (about 300 total) that I think are the best. It's just so hard to tell. The Grand Canyon is something that must be experienced in person, at least once in a lifetime. If you go, don't miss the IMax show they have about the Grand Canyon. It's fantastic!
One side point that I find interesting and amazing. While settlers came to the Grand Canyon starting with the Spanish in 1540, John Wesley Powell was the first to travel the entire length of the Colorado river in the canyon in 1869. President Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in getting the canyon named as a National Monument in 1908. In 1918 President Wilson signed a bill upgrading it to a National Park. The current boundries of the park were not settled until 1975. It seems to be such a short history to have come from wilderness to the park it is today that is visited by millions each year and it is so well taken care of.
