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Yavapai Point
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Views from Yavapai Point
Yavapai Point is among the grandest overlooks on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It stands east of the village, upon the Rim Trail, where a man may look out across the tremendous central depths of the canyon: Bright Angel Canyon, the Colorado River far below, and the mighty walls of stone laid down through almost two billion years.
Here stands the Yavapai Geology Museum, built in 1928, with broad windows opening upon the very scene its exhibits explain. From the ancient Vishnu Schist in the inner gorge to the Kaibab Limestone at the rim, the rocks lie before the visitor like the pages of a great book of the earth. No man with eyes to see can stand there without feeling the age, power, and majesty of the land.
Other viewpoints may offer a sharper plunge into the abyss, but Yavapai Point gives a broad and commanding view by which the canyon's immense form may be understood. At sunrise and sunset the light moves across the buttes and inner gorge, bringing out colors and shadows that no painter could fully capture.
The paved Rim Trail makes the point easily reached. To the west it leads toward Mather Point and the village; to the east it continues toward Yaki Point. It is a place for walking, looking, and learning - and for remembering that the finest inheritance of the American people is not merely wealth, but the wild and noble country set aside for all generations.