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The Painted Desert consists of the badlands in the Four Corners area from the Grand Canyon National Park into the Petrified Forest National Park. The desert ground is composed of stratified layers of easily erodible siltstone, mudstone, and shale of the triassic chinle formation. These fine grained ...
At 8,803 feet, Point Imperial is the highest and northernmost point on the North Rim, presenting a different panorama than that from the other two popular viewing locations further south, i.e. Cape Royal and Bright Angel Point. It overlooks the Painted Desert and the eastern end of Grand Canyon. ...
Tuweap is a primitive section of the Grand Canyon located on the remote northwest rim on the canyon's Arizona Strip. The view from Tuweap Overlook, 3000 vertical feet (914 meters) above the Colorado River, is a breathtaking and dramatic sheer drop. The volcanic features, cinder cones, and lava ...
Designed in 1932 by Mary Colter as a replica of a prehistoric Indian tower and constructed by the Santa Fe Railroad, the Desert View Watchtower commands a magnificent view of the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert to the east, the San Fransico Peaks to the south, and the Colorado River down below. ...
El Tovar is an in-park lodge situated directly on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Designed by Charles Whittlesey, Chief Architect for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, the lodge was opened in 1905 at the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway, which was formerly a branch of the ...
Located at the north rim of the Grand Canyon, Walhalla Glades Pueblo was inhabited by Indians who made it their summer home some 900 years ago. Walhalla Plateau is a 'peninsula' surrounded on three sides by the Grand Canyon and its elevation is a bit lower than most of the North Rim. Updrafts of ...
An imposing half-mile-long, palm-tree-lined boulevard serving as the grand entry way to the Stanford campus. Palm Drive starts out from the west end of University Avenue in Palo Alto and extends all the way to the heart of the campus, the Quadrangle which is bordered by the phallic Hoover Tower and ...
Originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory and is operated by Stanford University on behalf of the DOE. Opened in 1962, SLAC is located on 426 acres of Stanford University-owned land on ...
