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My Favorite Spot at the Grand Canyon

My Favorite Spot at the Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is amazing but one spot in particular is *it* for me

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Happy Thursday! Will here again. First off, thanks so much for all the fun feedback from last week’s post about summer trip ideas in the least visited parks! It was fun chatting with so many of you about your experiences & recommendations!

This week I figured I’d spill the beans on my personal favorite spot at America’s second most visited national park. I love the Grand Canyon. Some of my best national park stories & memories are from here. Like the time Jim and I along with a couple friends and our youngest brother decided on a whim to hike to the bottom and almost didn’t make it back out (sounds like future substack fodder).

When I became tired of the crowds at the South Rim I decided to finally visit the North Rim (I wrote a comparison of the two rims here) and wow, talk about love at second rim. It was kind of like visiting the Grand Canyon for the first time all over again. The scenery at the North Rim is so similar and yet oh-so-different.

Staying in the lodge or cabins at the Nor…

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