October 5, 2016

October 5, 2016

The last time we were at the North Rim in 2008, we gave it the short shrift because of the remoteness of the location and the lack of available RV camping.  So before leaving, we spend the morning exploring.

Our drive takes us 23 miles through a very hilly pine forest studded with the now golden autumn leaves of Quaking Aspens.  We dead-end at Point Royal at the tip of a long peninsula of land jutting out into the canyon.  On the return we stop at three more lookouts.  Each one has a different view of the Canyon.

We also stop at the ruins of an Anasazi Pueblo.  These ancestral residents lived at the rim in summer and farmed a creek delta on the Colorado during winter.

We spend the rest of the day making the long drive back to Tucson. Our only stop was to take some photos of the Aspen colors.