In Grand Canyon National Park, you can literally travel through 1.5 billion years of earth's history, and depending on your chosen path, you can accomplish this miracle by walking as little as 7 miles.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK — Time travel might seem like the stuff of Hollywood movies, but it's real and available to anyone with a taste for adventure. No flux capacitor or quantum tunnel necessary.
If you commit to this remarkable 7-mile plunge into the heart of the Grand Canyon, you are also committing to a strenuous, often arduous climb from the river, back to rim. It's a journey you'll never forget to be sure. And one that many over-enthusiastic and underprepared adventurers come to regret. Historically, so many hikers have overextended themselves along the South Kaibab Trail that rescue crews were forced into a dangerous and shiftless cycle of locating, aiding and often extracting injured or exhausted hikers who had vastly underestimated the canyon — or overestimated their abilities.
After closing the South Kaibab parking lot to private vehicles, search and rescue incidents within the park began to plummet well into the 2000s. But that trend has reversed in recent years. Search and rescue incidents are again skyrocketing, numbering almost 400 in 2021 — levels not seen since before the South Kaibab parking area was closed.
It's hard to even have a travel discussion nowadays without the terms "must do" and "bucket list" repeatedly rearing their heads.
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