AZ Trail #9 LbNA #36017
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Add Location| Owner: | Kristal & Ron  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 12, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | North Rim |
| County: | Coconino |
| State: | Arizona |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Squatchis |
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| Last found: | Oct 8, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFaF |
| Last edited: | Oct 12, 2007 |
Distance: 6 mile drive down a good graded dirt road, then ½-mile RT hike
Difficulty: Easy
*** This box is NOT in the National Park or Wilderness area!! ***
*** This box is NOT ACCESSABLE IN WINTER!! ***
This box is the ninth in our series, highlighting points of interest along the Arizona Trail – a nearly completed hiking/biking/equestrian trail that crosses the state from north to south.
HISTORY
The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is a wonderful get-away from the Southwest’s arid deserts. The majority of the area is an uplifted plateau with elevations ranging from 8,000-9,100 feet. Hiking trails on this rim come in a great variety of lengths and degrees of difficulty. The only developed trail that leads down into the canyon from this side is the North Kaibab which starts near the mule corral.
Having been isolated up here, several critters are unique to this forest, including the black, tuft-eared Kaibab squirrel and the Kaibab mule deer. American Bison hybrids and endangered California Condors are also visitors to the park. Because there are no running streams on the plateau, elk and bear are non-existent.
The lodge on the edge of the rim was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1928. It burned to the stone foundations in 1932 and was rebuilt in 1937. The 200 guest rooms are usually booked well in advance. All concessions will be run by Forever Resorts, a company from Scottsdale AZ, beginning in 2008.
Because winter snowfall averages almost 13 feet per year, this side of the park is only open from mid-May to mid-October. The South Rim and its services are open year-round.
TO THE BOX
Starting at the Park Service entrance fee station at the northern boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park, drive north on Route 67 for 4.7 miles to a crossroads just past mile marker 606. Turn right onto Forest Road 611 and travel east and then south for 1.3 miles to a signed junction. Go right again here, heading roughly south on FR 610 for 4.8 miles to the parking lot for the Arizona Trail.
About 20 steps SW of the restroom is a brown post marking the trailhead. This short path will take you downhill and into a field where it connects with the Arizona Trail. Turn right on the Arizona Trail and continue to the southern end of the field where a fence and gate mark the boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park. This side of the fence is a wooden sign marking the distances to several landmarks along the Kaibab Plateau Trail No. 101. The last line on the sign contains your directions to find the box. The first number is your heading in degrees from north and the second is your distance in steps. You’ll find the box where two fallen trees have crossed, under a pile of wood and bark.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
How do you carve a stamp to represent the Grand Canyon?!? I struggled with this and finally decided I couldn’t do it justice. I’ve already done a Kaibab squirrel, and the lodge and/or a condor seemed too tricky. The image we finally chose is representative of what we’re doing here instead. Many Native American tribes in Arizona use the “Man in the Maze” to symbolize finding your way through life. That’s us, as we load up in our RV and head off to a new National Park adventure next week!
Difficulty: Easy
*** This box is NOT in the National Park or Wilderness area!! ***
*** This box is NOT ACCESSABLE IN WINTER!! ***
This box is the ninth in our series, highlighting points of interest along the Arizona Trail – a nearly completed hiking/biking/equestrian trail that crosses the state from north to south.
HISTORY
The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is a wonderful get-away from the Southwest’s arid deserts. The majority of the area is an uplifted plateau with elevations ranging from 8,000-9,100 feet. Hiking trails on this rim come in a great variety of lengths and degrees of difficulty. The only developed trail that leads down into the canyon from this side is the North Kaibab which starts near the mule corral.
Having been isolated up here, several critters are unique to this forest, including the black, tuft-eared Kaibab squirrel and the Kaibab mule deer. American Bison hybrids and endangered California Condors are also visitors to the park. Because there are no running streams on the plateau, elk and bear are non-existent.
The lodge on the edge of the rim was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1928. It burned to the stone foundations in 1932 and was rebuilt in 1937. The 200 guest rooms are usually booked well in advance. All concessions will be run by Forever Resorts, a company from Scottsdale AZ, beginning in 2008.
Because winter snowfall averages almost 13 feet per year, this side of the park is only open from mid-May to mid-October. The South Rim and its services are open year-round.
TO THE BOX
Starting at the Park Service entrance fee station at the northern boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park, drive north on Route 67 for 4.7 miles to a crossroads just past mile marker 606. Turn right onto Forest Road 611 and travel east and then south for 1.3 miles to a signed junction. Go right again here, heading roughly south on FR 610 for 4.8 miles to the parking lot for the Arizona Trail.
About 20 steps SW of the restroom is a brown post marking the trailhead. This short path will take you downhill and into a field where it connects with the Arizona Trail. Turn right on the Arizona Trail and continue to the southern end of the field where a fence and gate mark the boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park. This side of the fence is a wooden sign marking the distances to several landmarks along the Kaibab Plateau Trail No. 101. The last line on the sign contains your directions to find the box. The first number is your heading in degrees from north and the second is your distance in steps. You’ll find the box where two fallen trees have crossed, under a pile of wood and bark.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
How do you carve a stamp to represent the Grand Canyon?!? I struggled with this and finally decided I couldn’t do it justice. I’ve already done a Kaibab squirrel, and the lodge and/or a condor seemed too tricky. The image we finally chose is representative of what we’re doing here instead. Many Native American tribes in Arizona use the “Man in the Maze” to symbolize finding your way through life. That’s us, as we load up in our RV and head off to a new National Park adventure next week!