Going to Point Imperial

As big as the Grand Canyon is, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon doesn’t has much viewing points like the South Rim. This makes the North Rim appear smaller than the South Rim. The South is much more visited than the north. Both probably reinforce each other. If there aren’t as many interesting spots in the North Rim, then people won’t have to do the long drive from the South to the North. If people won’t visit, then there is no point to develop other spots. This is okay for me since it would be much easier to explore the North Rim. Again, that is easier said than done. The viewing points at the North Rim are some of the most spectacular, but there is quite a bit of distance between them.

I have come to visit Cape Royal. One of the well known spots at the North Rim. Even with this fame, there weren’t that many people here compared to the South Rim which is crawling with people. The car park wasn’t full and I still had my choice of parking spot. There is still another spot I wanted to visit here but turns out that you can’t just keep driving. Cape Royal is at the southernmost end of the North Rim which means that I would need to retrace my path to get to the next spot which is named Point Imperial. The road branches off at one point, one road going back to the North Rim, another road going to Point Imperial, and the other road going out of the entire area. On my way to Point Imperial, I noticed that the forest looked like it had a recent forest first. The trees were all lifeless and the trunks were all black. I understand that sometimes forest fires are part of the forest life cycles but it still saddens me to see this happen.

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