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Crazy drive from Vegas to Grand Canyon (West side)
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<blockquote data-quote="Been In Brown Too Long" data-source="post: 5676828" data-attributes="member: 32249"><p>I took the same trip back in 2010. I kept saying as I was driving, "This can't possibly be the right way to get there!" We got there...eventually. Not sure if it's the same way now, but you could only drive to a certain point, where you then had to buy a ticket for a bus to drive you the rest of the way to the canyon itself. Driving those winding dirt roads between the buttes had me having flashbacks of the old westerns where the wagons would be going through the canyons, and the Indians would be up on top about to descend and attack. I kept checking the tops of those buttes just by instinct having watched hundreds of those old westerns with my dad, thinking "someone's coming down to get us." </p><p></p><p>My main concern wasn't gas or floods. I was thinking, let's get out of the Grand Canyon early enough to beat darkness, as that was going to be hell to drive in the dark, with nothing lit, no road markers and all the dust being kicked up by other vehicles, including full sized busses on winding dirt roads. </p><p></p><p>The Canyon itself was cool on that side though, no railings, no fences, nothing altered because it's on the tribal lands. The skywalk was pretty damn cool too. Once was enough though. Not doing that again, although I've read that the road has since been paved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Been In Brown Too Long, post: 5676828, member: 32249"] I took the same trip back in 2010. I kept saying as I was driving, "This can't possibly be the right way to get there!" We got there...eventually. Not sure if it's the same way now, but you could only drive to a certain point, where you then had to buy a ticket for a bus to drive you the rest of the way to the canyon itself. Driving those winding dirt roads between the buttes had me having flashbacks of the old westerns where the wagons would be going through the canyons, and the Indians would be up on top about to descend and attack. I kept checking the tops of those buttes just by instinct having watched hundreds of those old westerns with my dad, thinking "someone's coming down to get us." My main concern wasn't gas or floods. I was thinking, let's get out of the Grand Canyon early enough to beat darkness, as that was going to be hell to drive in the dark, with nothing lit, no road markers and all the dust being kicked up by other vehicles, including full sized busses on winding dirt roads. The Canyon itself was cool on that side though, no railings, no fences, nothing altered because it's on the tribal lands. The skywalk was pretty damn cool too. Once was enough though. Not doing that again, although I've read that the road has since been paved. [/QUOTE]
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