A clearinghouse of news and events about historic Route 66, the Mother Road.
Fog fills the Grand Canyon
A few weeks ago, an unusual phenomenon occurred in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Temperature inversion caused the canyon to fill with fog — no small feat, given the canyon’s massive size and depth.
The folks at Vox created an informative video explaining the phenomenon and compiled a few images from that day, including time-lapse footage from the National Park Service of the fog washing in.
Route 66 fans often use Street View on Google Maps to vicariously travel the Mother Road, as this demonstration video from 2010 shows: https://youtu.be/PTeCqnBuDdU Now, Street View has arrived at one of the most popular side trips for Route 66 travelers -- Grand Canyon National Park. According to Google's official…
The Associated Press has a story about the Grand Canyon celebrating its 90th anniversary as a national park. Some highlights of the article: The park was declared several years before Arizona became a state. About 44,000 visited it the first year. Now, 4.5 million visit annually. The Grand Canyon isn't…
Grand Canyon National Park closed indefinitely Wednesday after a resident there tested positive for coronavirus as part of a pandemic that has infected more than 216,000 people in the U.S. as of that evening. The national park in northern Arizona was under pressure for days from local and federal health…
