Grand Canyon Lodging and Hotel Options
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There are 6 hotels inside the park at Grand Canyon South Rim: the El Tovar Hotel, Kachina Lodge, Thunderbird Lodge, Bright Angel Lodge, Maswik Lodge and Yavapai Lodge. The El Tovar Hotel (1905) and Bright Angel Lodge (1934) are registered National Historic Landmarks. The El Tovar Hotel, Kachina Lodge, Thunderbird and Bright Angel Lodge are situated on the very rim of the canyon; Maswik and Yavapai Lodge are ¼ mile and 1 mile from the canyon rim respectively. All in-park hotels (except Kachina and Thunderbird) have restaurants and cocktail lounges on-site (Yavapai has a restaurant, but no cocktail lounge). El Tovar, Bright Angel, Maswik and Yavapai also have tour and activities desks. None of the in-park hotels have pools, jacuzzis or workout rooms. Grand Canyon South Rim hotels are typically booked 8 months to a year in advance from mid-March through mid-September.
If your trip is within peak season and/or less than 3 months away, you are unlikely to be able to secure lodging inside the park. Your next best option will be to stay in Tusayan, which is located 7 miles (10 minutes) from Grand Canyon South Rim. The most popular hotels in this area are: The Best Western Grand Canyon Squire Inn, The Grand Hotel, The Quality Inn Canyon Plaza, The Holiday Inn Express, and the Red Feather Lodge. These hotels date from the mid 1960’s (the Red Feather) to the late 1990’s (the Holiday Inn Express and Grand). All have on-site amenities such as pools (Grand and Holiday Inn Express have indoor heated pools open year-round; the others have outdoor pools open seasonally [usually Memorial Day through Labor Day]), workout rooms, restaurants and continental breakfast included in their rates. The Best Western Grand Canyon Squire Inn also has an on-site play center with a 6-lane bowling alley, video arcade and billiard tables.
Other popular choices for gateway community lodging are Williams (60 minutes from the park), Flagstaff (90 minutes from the park), and Page Lake Powell (2.5 hours from the park). For more information on these communities, watch the video above.
For availability and pricing of hotels in Tusayan (Grand Canyon), Williams, Flagstaff or Page, call 1-800-916-8530.
The only in-park lodge at the North Rim, the Grand Canyon Lodge, has a couple hundred cabins and some motel rooms. This lodge is usually booked several months in advance. The concessionaire for Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim is Forever Resorts. For reservations and information, visit www.grandcanyonlodgenorth.com or call 877-386-4383.
If your trip is within peak season and less than 3 months away, you are unlikely to be able to secure lodging inside the park. Out-of-park lodging is also limited, with two small facilities situated within an hour of the park, and two others located about 90 minutes away. They are in order of proximity to the park:
The Kaibab Lodge, 30 miles North of the park (open seasonally), 928-638-2389; The Jacob Lake Inn at Jacob Lake, Arizona, 60 miles North of the park, (928) 643-7232 or (928) 643-7898; Marble Canyon Lodge , at Lees Ferry, Arizona, 90 miles North of the park, 1-800-726-1789 or (928) 355-2225; Cliff Dweller’s Lodge , at Lees Ferry, Arizona, 90 miles North of the park, (800)962-9755 or (928)355-2261
The next nearest lodging is about 90 minutes from the park in Kanab, Utah, or 2.5 hours away in Page-Lake Powell Arizona. Grand Canyon North Rim is best visited outdoors-minded people seeking a quiet getaway, especially those who’ve already been to the South Rim. Visitors traveling in the fall, particularly late September, should seriously consider at least a brief visit to the North Rim to experience the spectacular fall colors of the Kaibab National Forest. Because of its high altitude, Grand Canyon North Rim is not recommended for those with cardiac or respiratory ailments. It is also not recommended for families traveling with younger children, especially those who have a high requirement for sensory stimulation.
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March 1st, 2009 at 9:05 am
My family would like to see the Grand Canyon from the North rim.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 am
Thanks for emailing all this info of the Grand Canyon. We have booked into The Best Western Squires Inn for 3 nts, then onto Monument Valley for 2nts.
This info is of great value to us, as it will be our 1st visit to the aera from England.
Thanks Again
Tony & Yvonne
March 7th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Thank you very much for the info. this will be my 2nd visit,hope to make the best of it.
March 12th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Great video, we will be staying in las vegas, and driving to williams to take train to grand canyon.
thanks
Cind & Dave Wallace
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
My wife and I are planning to spend about a week at the Grand Canyon. Our plan is to stay 3 days at the South Rim, a day at Flagstaff and 2 days on the North Rim before heading out to Las Vegas from there. Where should we stay near the North Rim?
March 24th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Bob Haber writes: “My wife and I are planning to spend about a week at the Grand Canyon. Our plan is to stay 3 days at the South Rim, a day at Flagstaff and 2 days on the North Rim before heading out to Las Vegas from there. Where should we stay near the North Rim?”
GrandCanyon.com answers: To answer your question about North Rim Lodging, the first order of business is to make sure you’re aware that it is only open from mid-May through mid-October. At 8,000’ above sea level, spring and fall days at the North Rim are crisp, and summers are warm and pleasant. Nighttime lows remain quite cold until late spring, and can dip back down below freezing as early as August.
The only in-park lodge at the North Rim, the Grand Canyon Lodge, has a couple hundred cabins and some motel rooms. This lodge is usually booked several months in advance. The concessionaire for Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim is Forever Resorts. For reservations and information, visit http://www.grandcanyonlodgenorth.com or call 877-386-4383.
If your trip is within peak season and/or less than 3 months away, you are unlikely to be able to secure lodging inside the park. Out-of-park lodging is also limited, with two small facilities situated within an hour of the park, and two others located about 90 minutes away. They are in order of proximity to the park:
The Kaibab Lodge, 30 miles North of the park (open seasonally), 928-638-2389, http://www.kaibablodge.com
The Jacob Lake Inn at Jacob Lake, Arizona, 60 miles North of the park, (928) 643-7232 or (928) 643-7898 http://www.jacoblake.com
Marble Canyon Lodge , at Lees Ferry, Arizona, 90 miles North of the park, 1-800-726-1789 or (928) 355-2225 http://www.leesferryflyfishing.com
Cliff Dweller’s Lodge , at Lees Ferry, Arizona, 90 miles North of the park, (800)962-9755 or (928)355-2261 http://www.cliffdwellerslodge.com
The next nearest lodging is about 90 minutes from the park in Kanab, Utah, or 2.5 hours away in Page-Lake Powell Arizona. For availability and pricing of hotels in these communities, call 1-800-916-8530.
Grand Canyon North Rim is best visited outdoors-minded people seeking a quiet getaway, especially those who’ve already been to the South Rim. Visitors traveling in the fall, particularly late September, should seriously consider at least a brief visit to the North Rim to experience the spectacular fall colors of the Kaibab National Forest. Because of its high altitude, Grand Canyon North Rim is not recommended for those with cardiac or respiratory ailments. It is also not recommended for families traveling with younger children, especially those who have a high requirement for sensory stimulation.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:25 am
We plan to go to the south rim and then visit the Skywalk in May. Are there any hotels near the West rim near the Skywalk? Is it possible to drive to the west rim from the south rim from inside the park?
April 7th, 2009 at 8:16 am
We are planning a visit to the Grand Canyon around the 28th/29th/30th of july this year (from Holland). We have booked a RV (about 30 feet long). What will be our best option to stay, which RV park? And do we have to book in advance or not?
April 7th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
The first priority here is to be sure that you’re aware that the Grand Canyon Skywalk is NOT located in Grand Canyon National Park. It is located at Grand Canyon West, which is a Hualapai Indian Tribal Park about a 3 hour drive East of Las Vegas, Nevada, but getting there is not necessarily easy. Take U.S. 93 south to Hoover Dam; continue south another 40 miles to the Dolan Springs/Meadview City/Pierce Ferry Road exit. Turn left and follow Pierce Ferry Road to Diamond Bar Road (about 28 miles). Turn right at the sign and stay on Diamond Bar Road to Grand Canyon West (about 21 miles). The main access road into the park is unpaved for about 15 miles. Driving a rental car on this road is very strongly discouraged. There is a park-and-ride shuttle provided at the turn off from Meadview Arizona. There is also no lodging (except for a few cabins) in the immediate area of Grand Canyon West, so you would have to drive quite far (90 minutes to 3 hours) after your visit to get to your hotel.
The entrance fee to the Grand Canyon Skywalk is ~$32/person, however, you actually need to budget for about 3 times that much. Here’s why: if you drive to Grand Canyon West, you must pay a Tribal Park entry fee of $30/person. You must then pay a vehicle parking fee of $20/vehicle. There is also a new environmental impact fee of ~$10/person, plus you must pay for bus transfers around the area, which run ~$25/person. So the cost to experience the Skywalk actually is closer to ~$95/person!
You would probably enjoy yourself more by taking part in one of several package tours out of the Las Vegas area. Our most popular excursion is the Indian Adventure Skywalk Tour. This would begin with pickup at your hotel and transport to the Boulder City Municipal Airport where you would board airplanes to Grand Canyon West. Your flight would include flyovers of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, and you would then spend about 4 hours touring Grand Canyon West, with lunch, and a stroll on the Skywalk. Tour length would be about 7.5 hours hotel to hotel, and cost $279, which includes your Skywalk entrance fee. For more information on the Indian Adventure Skywalk Air/Ground Tour, click here ->: http://www.grandcanyon.com/indian-adventure-skywalk.html
If you don’t care for flying, there is also the Grand Canyon West Motorcoach tour. This would pick up at your hotel early in the morning, make a stop at Hoover Dam, and tour a Joshua Tree forest en route to Grand Canyon West, the site of the Skywalk. You would then tour the Grand Canyon West area for about 4 hours, including lunch, walk on the Skywalk (same as the above tour) then transfer back to Las Vegas to be dropped back off at your hotel. Tour duration from hotel to hotel is about 12 hours. The cost of the Motorcoach tour is $119 per person, you would then pay the entrance fee to the Grand Canyon Skywalk on-site at Grand Canyon West. For more information on the Grand Canyon West Motorcoach tour, click here ->: http://grandcanyon.com/grand-canyon-west-motorcoach-tour.html
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim is open year-round and considered by many to be the “true Grand Canyon.” Here you’ll find the vast, expansive views most often seen in magazines and on TV. From the South Rim, you can view the Grand Canyon from close to two dozen vantage points, each with their own unique attributes, some of which you can see the Colorado River from. Approximately 5 hours’ drive from Las Vegas or Phoenix, the South Rim is the most easily accessible from most major Western cities and therefore is the most heavily visited. At 7,000’ above sea level, the South Rim has four distinct seasons of weather from warm, dry summers to cold, snowy winters.
Grand Canyon South Rim is most frequently chosen by first-time visitors to the area not only for its beautiful views, but for its abundance of visitor services and family-oriented activities. There are 6 hotels inside the park, and 5 outside the park in the community of Tusayan. Restaurants, gift shops, visitor information and Grand Canyon tours are most plentiful at Grand Canyon South Rim. Popular gateway communities are Williams, Flagstaff and Page-Lake Powell. Grand Canyon South Rim is also recommended for those traveling with young children, as there is more for them to do at the South Rim than at the North Rim or West Rim. Hotel reservations for this area should be made 6 to 9 months in advance during peak travel season.
Grand Canyon West is open year-round. It is a Tribal Park owned and operated by the Hualapai Indian Nation that garnered sudden international fame with its star attraction: the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Grand Canyon West is most easily accessible from Las Vegas by car (3 hours – however, the main access road to the complex is presently unpaved for 15 miles) or by package tour. Grand Canyon West has two primary viewpoints, from which the depth of the Grand Canyon is very pronounced and the Colorado River more easily visible. At 4,000’ above sea level, Grand Canyon West is a true desert landscape. Grand Canyon West is very pleasant in early spring and late fall, and bearable in wintertime. Late spring and summer at Grand Canyon West are extremely hot, with daytime highs of 120° F, dust storms and high winds frequently reported.
There is no lodging in the immediate area of Grand Canyon West. The nearest hotel lodging is in Kingman, Arizona, 90 minutes’ drive away. In addition to the Skywalk, Grand Canyon West has a small airport, café, Western town, Indian Village, and an amphitheatre where visitors can watch Native American dances or cultural performances. Several Grand Canyon helicopter tour companies operate bases at Grand Canyon West offering chopper rides to the bottom of the canyon for smooth water pontoon boat rides on the Colorado River. Grand Canyon West is a good choice for Las Vegas visitors with limited time for a Grand Canyon experience. It is also an excellent option for those who want to get to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with minimal effort. Families traveling with very young children, extreme seniors, or anyone in less than robust health should probably pass on Grand Canyon West due to its dry desert climate and present lack of infrastructure.
For more information on which side you might experience the Grand Canyon from, click here to watch a short video clip ->: http://www.grandcanyon.com/which-rim.html
May 15th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Is to hot to really enjoy everything around the middle of August??
August 10th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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August 24th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Hi,
Thanx for email.
I am flying to Grand Canyon just after 16 days from today, very little time in hand. I want to stay within the canyon for one night. As a budget traveller I dont want to go back to Flagstaff using shuttle express for the night and come back to canyon on the following day (cost around 50 dollar). Is there any way to stay within canyon without any reservation at lodging inside the canyon, I need a secure place for a nap or just taking some rest from late night to early morning!
August 25th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Showing up at the Grand Canyon and hoping to obtain a room without a reservation is absolutely ill-advised. Unfortunately too, the more economically priced rooms inside the park – Maswik and Bright Angel Lodge – also tend to book up the fastest. To inquire about room availability for in-park accommodations, visit http://www.grandcanyonlodges.com or call 1-888-297-2757 or 303-297-2757 outside the US. Your next best option in terms of convenience would be to stay in Tusayan, just 10 minutes away from the canyon rim. The least expensive hotel in this area is the Red Feather Lodge. It is one of 5 hotel properties in this area. For availability and pricing of lodging in Tusayan, visit our Grand Canyon hotels booking page here ->: http://www.grandcanyon.com/hotels.html or call 1-800-916-8530.