Looking for Input on the Grand Canyon Train.
Hi Everyone, We are very interested in taking the site seeing train from Williams Grand Canyon on the grand Canyon Railway. Has anyone done this and can give input. For example the benefits of t...
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The south rim of the Grand Canyon is around 6,500 feet elevation. I would be more worried about heat in the train, than A/C cooling. Check the weather, snow is possible in April, and sometimes in early May, yet it should be warming up now.
You can check Weather.com and zip code 86046
There is a trailer village just outside the park with hookups, and dry camping only inside the park. My suggestion is if you want to take the train, spend a couple of nights in Williams, and then dry camp inside the park at least one night, and if you feel the need for hookups, make reservations at the place just outside the park. There is a I-Max theater just across the street, whit great movie of the parks.
If a little more limited on time, your wife might take the kids on the train, then you can pick them up at the south rim village with the truck, and go back to your camping area. You can find out about it on video tape.
Also if you have heard about that bridge that sticks out about 100' over the canyon wall, it is closer to (and north of) Kingman AZ, and not near the Grand Canyon Village.
If you want to see a really steep canyon, go to Canyon De Chelley, and look at the south end viewpoint, the one southeast of the southern parking area. There is a wall almost straight down, about 300' or more. With a Indian tour guide, you can drive into the canyon, or be driven in on their vehicles, and see the walls from the bottom looking up.
Zion National Park, you can see the canyons from the bottom looking up. Grand Canyon and Bryce canyon have the roadways at the top of the canyon, looking down. Bryce and Zion are normally a lot cooler than Grand Canyon. It's all in the altitude.
Fred.
You can check Weather.com and zip code 86046
There is a trailer village just outside the park with hookups, and dry camping only inside the park. My suggestion is if you want to take the train, spend a couple of nights in Williams, and then dry camp inside the park at least one night, and if you feel the need for hookups, make reservations at the place just outside the park. There is a I-Max theater just across the street, whit great movie of the parks.
If a little more limited on time, your wife might take the kids on the train, then you can pick them up at the south rim village with the truck, and go back to your camping area. You can find out about it on video tape.
Also if you have heard about that bridge that sticks out about 100' over the canyon wall, it is closer to (and north of) Kingman AZ, and not near the Grand Canyon Village.
If you want to see a really steep canyon, go to Canyon De Chelley, and look at the south end viewpoint, the one southeast of the southern parking area. There is a wall almost straight down, about 300' or more. With a Indian tour guide, you can drive into the canyon, or be driven in on their vehicles, and see the walls from the bottom looking up.
Zion National Park, you can see the canyons from the bottom looking up. Grand Canyon and Bryce canyon have the roadways at the top of the canyon, looking down. Bryce and Zion are normally a lot cooler than Grand Canyon. It's all in the altitude.
Fred.
