Cars backed up for hours to get into Grand Canyon ahead of pandemic holiday weekend

[soothsayer]

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Cars backed up for hours to get into Grand Canyon ahead of pandemic holiday weekend

Cars backed up for hours to get into Grand Canyon ahead of pandemic holiday weekend
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[msongs]

1. where will these ppl stay if they get in the park? bear food? nt

[Lucinda]

2. FFS

❤️~✿~❧~🌿~❧~✿~❤️
May all those innocent people who end up exposed because of these idiots remain healthy...and may those who get sick learn something...

[Deuxcents]

3. Wtf?

Did I miss something? Why the rush on the park.

[soothsayer]

4. No idea! It puzzled me

[former9thward]

6. The Grand Canyon starts to get snow bound this time of year.

Thanksgiving is about the last time of year to see it without the weather issues.

[soothsayer]

11. Thank you!

[TeamPooka]

9. Trump is selling the Grand Canyon to a holding company in the Cayman Islands next week.

although I'm trying to be funny Trump has killed satire because that sounded totally possible after I typed it.

[soothsayer]

12. Remember this? Trump nuclear energy plan could reopen areas near the Grand canyon to uranium mining

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2020/04/24/donald-trump-nuclear-plan-could-reopen-grand-canyon-uranium-mining/3012935001/

Trump nuclear energy plan could reopen areas near the Grand canyon to uranium mining

[czarjak]

5. "Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back"!

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Jeebus, people are so farking stupid

[Withywindle]

8. Depends on what they're going to do, I guess

Sightseeing from your car is pretty safe as long as the only people in the car with you are the people you've been isolating with. But doesn't look like they're seeing much but a traffic jam.

[electric_blue68]

10. Oh, dear...

I was so blessed to visit the GC 39 yrs ago in the summer - ever if I didn't get to stay overnight.
An astonishing, majestic place. Deeply happy memories.
🥰✨🥰✨🥰✨🥰

[helpisontheway]

16. We drove across the country when we were 19 and 20 years old

We had an opportunity to see the Grand Canyon but it was 50 miles out of our way. We decided to keep going. We have always regretted that decision. 48 years old now and hope to have that opportunity again.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. I was in south western AZ

a few years ago and drove 3.5 hours from there just to see the Grand Canyon. I'm from Maine. I figured I'll probably never get any closer to Grand Canyon, so better see it then. Definitely worth it. Best part of AZ. Most of the state is crappy desert land. I definitely prefer Maine to Arizona overall. I'm not a fan of deserts. I like water and green plants.

[electric_blue68]

21. I love the weathered sculptured...

hills, Mesas, Buttes, rocks, and more genty swelling and leveled areas with various colored sands (orchers, rust oranges, beiges, pale purple, mid shaded purples etc), of the High Desert. The dots of scrub. Swoon! 💖

BTW the contrast made me appreciate my home area - Green Clad, and always running Rivers of my NYC, and neighboring NJ suburban area even more when I returned! 🙂

[electric_blue68]

20. Wow, well you still have time ! : )

Oooo, please tell me more about your trip! 👍

I took one cross country trip via the SW (NYC - San Fran & LA) in Summer '79, and one Summer '80 3/4 across (also to the SW) and Northward into SD, via NM, Colorado (including the Rockies via my cousin's motorcycle). I still have a bunch of slides, and my trip journals.

Both by bus - they had a two week pass kind of like Euro rail. I slept on the bus, slept in hotels, motels, a hostel,with stayed with 2 different cousins and couple who were my dad's business friends.
And in a sleeping bag when a friend and I met in Flagstaff, rented a car, visited the Navajo & Hopi Nations, and spent one of 2 nights in Monument Valley! (a place as glorious in a different way as the GC)

I decided in ?'79 to return to the SW to retake the smaller vehicle tour out of Flagstaff, AZ again to the Hopi Nation and landscape and decided not to go to Carlsbad Caverns.
Since I had visited as a kid much smaller caverns in mid NYS State I don't regret that.

I hope I might get back to the High Desert one time more - but my next city visit as some point - 💖 Chicago! Haven't gotten there yet.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. I bet the problem is they aren't running the park buses

due to covid-19 (social distancing). I went to acadia national park this summer for a local vacation and there were definite traffic and parking issues because the park buses weren't running. It wasn't as bad as this, but explains the traffic. When I went to grand canyon a few years ago everyone took the park bus in and no traffic issues.

[soothsayer]

15. Makes sense

[Ron Green]

14. Aah, Cheap Gasoline. It's Everywhere, and

it always makes things worse in the long run (and the medium run, too.)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

18. Grand Canyon has some of the most expensive gas prices in the country

Unless something has changed... that area is generally overpriced when it comes to food and gas. Plus you want to fill up there because there aren't any other gas stations for a long time outside of that area.

[Ron Green]

22. LOL - if it's less than $10 a gallon it's cheap.

You and I are not even talking about the same thing.

[Quixote1818]

17. I used to work there. I know of two backroads to get passed all this. nt