Grand Canyon National Park Backcountry Permits

Backcountry travel in Grand Canyon National Park, managed by the National Park Service. The photographs look out over the canyon itself: horizontal bands of red, grey and cream rock stacked into cliffs, terraces and free-standing buttes, ridge receding behind ridge into haze. Several frames follow the trails, dirt tracks cut in tight switchbacks down red slopes, a route traversing a spine past a small stone rest shelter roofed in green metal with hikers gathered at it, and the green floor of a side canyon far below. Another shows two people under full packs walking a sandy trail through open ponderosa forest on the rim, with grass, low brush and fallen limbs between the trunks. Two of the images are maps rather than scenery: one dividing the backcountry into lettered use areas across the drainages, the other a detail of the inner canyon showing the corridor trails, ranger stations, rest houses and distances between the South Rim and the river.