Looking northwest from Desert View, Grand Canyon South Rim, Arizona, USA
Four miles from the national park boundary, Desert View offers the first glimpse of the Grand Canyon for visitors arriving from the east, and presents a spectacle rather different to most overlooks as one third of the panorama is of the flat plains of the Painted Desert, on the east side of the Colorado as it bends round to the north. The park road cannot follow the rim any further east as the ground falls away steeply towards Cedar Canyon, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, so the many other viewpoints are all found to the west.
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Location: Desert View Watchtower, Grand Canyon Village, AZ, USA
Photo credit: © Carl DeAbreu / Alamy / Afripics
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