Found this interesting book about the GC in the littlest souvenir shop ever just inside the El Tovar Inn situated right along side the south rim. Did you know...
1. If Niagara Falls plunged into the GC, how many times longer would it have to be to reach the bottom of the canyon? 28 times longer!
2. The highest elevation in Florida is 345 feet. How many Floridas could you stack up like pancakes inside the GC? 15 Floridas !
3. Yosemite valley is seven miles long. You could line up about 40 Yosemite Valleys along the GC's 277 mile lenght and you could still hide more in the GC's side canyons.
4. HOw many Golden Gate Bridges would it take to reach across the GC? 12!
5. What portion of the state of Arizona is occupied by Grand Canyon National Park? Less
than 2%!
6. There is an elementary school inside the park for the children of the employees.
7. Every summer they hire about 8,000 people to serve the rush of tourists.
8. Is the GC the largest national park in the US? NOPE--it is 11th on the list.
9. Arizona doesn't go on Daylight Savings Time: In the summer, it already has enough sunlight!
10. What cut the GC? The Colorado River, plus erosion caused by precipitation--although the exact details of how a river flows towards higher ground (as it does) it still a mystery.
11. The oldest fossils in the GC are about one billion years old--but none of them are dinosaurs
bones. The CAnyon is much older than dinosaurs.
12. What causes the most forest fires at the GC? Lightning! From 1940- 1975 52, 518 forest fires were started by lightning--an average of four a day!
13. Grand Canyon tourists sometimes eat deer poop! It's true! They mistake the small pellets for for pinyon nuts. Note: If you want to be sure you aren't eating poop, look up. If there isn't a pinyon tree within site, don't swallow them!
14. The Colorado River got it's name from the spanish meaing Red River. 19 % of it's length lies within the canyon. It is unsual because it is a river that flows through a desert. The trout in the river rode to the bottom of the canyon on the backs of mules.
15. How many GC mules have fallen off the trail and killed riders? Zero!
16. What is the most dangerous animal at the GC? The rock squirrel!
17. BAck in the 1930's deer in the GC became addicted to cigarettes!
18. Rattlesnakes are the most poisonous creatures in the GC? FALSE!
Red ants are! Zero people have died from rattlesnake bites in the GC.
19. What is more dangerous at the canyon -lightning or cameras? Cameras--careless!
20. How often do people fall into the Grand Canyon? Only once! (Bad Joke). :>
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June!
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