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Good afternoon Grand Canyon travelers! 

You’ve gotta love progress.  ‘Twas a time – rather recently – where we would have told our acrophobic friend who posed the above question that he or she was just plain outta luck.  Because ‘twas a time when to get to the bottom of the Grand Canyon one had two choices: take a 2-day Grand Canyon mule ride; take a 2-day Grand Canyon hike, both of which would leave you with a sore behind, and if you were afraid of heights, would freak you out beyond measure.  About 10 years ago, the Hualapai Indian Nation opened up their Grand Canyon tourism enterprise, Grand Canyon West, and brought another bottom of the Grand Canyon experience onto the scene: helicopters.  This certainly solved the problem of painful posteriors, not to mention drastically reduced the time required to get to the bottom of the canyon (what took 2 days now took half a day, even less!).  Granted you had to go to Las Vegas, but hey, how cool’s that?  Still – our “friends in low places” were left out of the loop.   

Until now – now, there’s the Inner Canyon Jeep Tour.

The mark of any good product is its ability to solve problems, and the Inner Canyon Jeep Tour has done just that by providing a means for people to get to the bottom of the canyon and stay on solid ground.   GrandCanyon.com began booking this wonderful tour last year, and no surprise, it was a hit right out of the gate.  Some of the best things about it include, but are certainly not limited to:

1. You can pick it up in Williams or Grand Canyon South Rim.  Here’s a tip: if you’re staying at the South Rim, driving down to Williams anyway.  It’ll save you $40/person. 

2. No weight limits, no height limits, no English fluency requirement – kids just need to be at least 5 to take part.  You should be reasonably healthy and preferably not claustrophobic (see below re: the Grand Canyon Caverns).

3. You get to see some pretty cool places besides the Grand Canyon, such as Route 66 and Seligman, Arizona, which was the “real life” basis for the town of Radiator Springs from the movie “Cars.”  And your kids will love this: the real Mater and Red make an appearance on this tour! 

4. Did I mention some pretty cool places?  The Grand Canyon Caverns are quite literally, “cool” all the time!  You’ll enjoy an hour long walking tour of this ancient limestone cave, a rare example of a dry cavern.  Discovered by a woodcutter in 1927 who tripped on the entrance en route to a poker game, he initially thought the gleaming crystals and metallic stain on the cavern walls were diamonds and gold.  He was wrong.  Oh well.  The Grand Canyon Caverns are still a treasure in their own right, a remnant of Route 66’s heyday.  The Caverns gets its internal air from the Grand Canyon over 20 miles away and remains a constant 56 degrees, 6% humidity. 

5.  The drive to the bottom of the canyon isn’t scary!  Whereas the Grand Canyon mule trails and hiking trails sometimes feature 1,000’ vertical drops, the Diamond Bar Road on the Hualapai Indian Reservation descends to the bottom of the canyon gradually and gently.  Following the Diamond Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River, you’ll see unusual desert flora and even some familiar fauna: wild burros, descended from pack animals left in the area by miners decades ago, have mastered the art of looking cute on cue.  Your Jeep drivers usually carry a stash of carrots. 

The trip includes a box lunch, which you enjoy down by the riverside, as well as water and Gatorade.  During the summer months, you can also take a sunset departure of this tour and enjoy a hot sit-down late lunch/early dinner at the Grand Canyon Caverns.  When we took this tour last year, I had some of the best barbecue ribs ever. 

If there were any downside to this tour, it is the length (8 hours out of Williams, 10 hours out of Grand Canyon South Rim), but compared to your alternatives, it’s a small sacrifice, as is the starting price tag of $217/person.  After all, what price would you expect to pay to be able to tell your family, friends and neighbors that “I went to the bottom of the Grand Canyon?”  Oh, “and I didn’t put myself in traction or scare myself silly?”  That IMHO is worth its weight in gold – or at least carrots. 

Interested?  Give us a call or book the Inner Canyon Jeep Tour online today.

P.S.  Thank you all for your wonderful comments on our informational video series!  If you’d like to see more, check out our very own channel on YouTube, “GrandCanyon86023

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