Prescott, Arizona: Many visitors to Grand
Canyon National Park take the time to hike portions of the park’s
central Corridor trails, built by the Santa Fe Railroad and National
Park Service in the 1910s – 1930s. Few, however, have the
opportunity to become acquainted with the trails built a generation
earlier by the canyon’s first European-American prospectors, miners,
and tourism entrepreneurs. Since the 1970s, these historic trails have
been making a comeback among adventuresome backpackers and river
runners, and the park service is beginning to maintain some and
rehabilitate others to meet demand as well as preserve their original
alignments.
- WHEN: Sunday, April 16, 2006, 1:00 p.m.
- WHERE: Sharlot Hall Museum, 415 w. Gurley St., Prescott
Join National Park Service cultural resource specialist Mike Anderson as
he identifies those earlier canyon trails and illustrates the park’s
most recent effort to rehabilitate its historic North and South Bass
Trails.
Mike is also the author of four canyon histories, all published by Grand Canyon Association:
A Gathering of Grand Canyon Historians (2005); Living At the Edge:
Explorers, Exploiters, and Settlers of the Grand Canyon Region (1998);
Polishing the Jewel: An Administrative History of Grand Canyon National
Park (2000); and Along the Rim: A Guide to Grand Canyon’s South Rim
from Hermits Rest to Desert View (2001).
Canyon Country Community Lectures are sponsored by Grand Canyon
Association, NAU Cline Library, Grand Canyon Semester and Sharlot Hall
Museum.
For more information on this series or the Grand Canyon Association contact Helen Thompson :
- Direct Line: 928.638.7033
- Fax: 928.638.2484
- Email: hthompson@grandcanyon.org
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