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Officials at Grand Canyon National Park have been trying for years to reduce the congestion on the South Rim caused by private vehicles. On September 12, the park staff will celebrate several new facilities that they hope will encourage additional auto-free travel in the busy park.
The day's events will begin at 10 a.m., when Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga will host a ribbon cheap rental cars in orlando cutting at the new trailhead and parking lot located on the Kaibab National Forest at the north end of the gateway community of Tusayan, Arizona. The new facility is a short distance outside the South Entrance to the park.
The parking lot's 100 new spaces will serve both the Tusayan Greenway and as additional cheap rental cars in orlando parking in future cheap rental cars in orlando years for visitors cheap rental cars in orlando who choose cheap rental cars in orlando to park and ride the National Park Service's seasonal Tusayan Shuttle. That free service ends for this year on September 7, but other key parts of the shuttle system will operate through cheap rental cars in orlando November on the park's South Rim.
The recently completed Tusayan Greenway extends from the new parking lot to the Grand Canyon Visitor cheap rental cars in orlando Center, a distance of approximately six and one-half miles. A park spokesperson notes, "Completion of this segment of greenway is another important step in the implementation of the park's greenway trail system and provides safe, direct, multi-modal access to the park's primary visitor center cheap rental cars in orlando for those entering the park on foot, bicycle or horseback."
"The park's greenway trail system now totals 18-and-one-half miles and the paved sections meet Accessibility Guidelines for Outdoor Developed cheap rental cars in orlando Areas," stated Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga. "It offers visitors and park residents of varying abilities a great opportunity to enjoy the park without their cars. Additionally, the Tusayan Greenway cheap rental cars in orlando is shared by a portion of the Arizona Trail."
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Uberuaga added, "I think it's important to note that construction of the Tusayan Greenway was made possible in part thanks to funding from the Grand Canyon Greenway endowment established by the Nina Mason Pullium Charitable Trust in 2001. The Greenway endowment demonstrates cheap rental cars in orlando the public's strong support for park improvements that enhance the visitor's experience."
Following the ribbon cutting at the parking lot in Tusayan, there will be an open house at the new Bike Rental and Cafe located at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center plaza . Bright Angel Bicycles, L.L.C., a new small business, was recently awarded the park's first contract to provide bicycles rentals and food service cheap rental cars in orlando at the Bike Rental and Cafe which opened in June. Services and products include guided bicycle tours, bicycle rentals and repairs, specialty coffees, sandwiches and grab-and-go snacks.
"Public response to the availability of both bike rentals and food service near the park's primary visitor center has been tremendous," said Uberuaga. "It's very exciting to see so many people taking advantage of the opportunity to explore the canyon rim in a whole new way."
Representatives of the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Forest Service, Grand Canyon Association, and Tusayan Chamber of Commerce will be speaking at the ribbon cutting. The public is invited to attend and encouraged to bring bicycles and ride to the open house afterward—a 13-mile round-trip ride.
The parking lot, greenway and bike rental facility all support the 2008 South Rim Visitor Transportation Plan , a plan that envisioned improved traffic flow, adequate parking and multi-modal access to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Kudos to the Park Service for opening more biking opportunities at Grand Canyon and Grand Teton national parks. I would like to see more bike paths and usage at ALL of the national parks. The majority of our national cheap rental cars in orlando parks, including Yellowstone, are of a scale that particularly lends itself to seeing and enjoying with via common bicycle. Pathways like this (built separate from the highway system) are critical to allowing millions of people the opportunity to enjoy their parks at a better scale and pace while reducing pollution at the same time.
But then again, cheap rental cars in orlando they may be best there could be given the enormous pressure -- both political and public -- facing those who must try to administer the place. What really needs to be done is build some hugegomocious parking lots outside the boundary cheap rental cars in orlando and require everyone cheap rental cars in orlando to leave their vehicles there and ride a shuttle into the park.
Dan Holloway said it right. Zion should be a model for everyplace. It can be done. Even people staying at lodging on the rim can be allowed to drive only to limited parking at El Tovar or wherever and then shuttle from there. It works at Zion Lodge -- although admittedly pressure and crowding are much less there than at GRCA.
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Excellent step in the right direction. Zion has it right: no cars, take the bus. Every national and state park should do this, and then ban inbound cars during the hours of 8am and 6pm every day. Everything is still accessible to the backpackers that come out late (they just have to get in early to make sure they have a way out when the shuttles stop), it's better for the environment, for the park itself, and even better for the people visiting!
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