{"id":6003,"date":"2021-10-24T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backroadswest.com\/blog\/fall-colors-above-cedar-city-utah-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:16:50","slug":"grand-canyon-flightseeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backroadswest.com\/blog\/grand-canyon-flightseeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon Flightseeing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Being one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon is an amazing, jaw-dropping sight to see.<\/strong> There are lots of ways to see the Grand Canyon. Most people see it from its South Rim, fewer see it from its North Rim and even fewer people see it from a remote viewpoint such as Toroweap Overlook, Twin Point, or Point Sublime or by hiking into it.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Many people also see it from an airplane, usually flying on a commercial flight at over 20,000 feet, but at that that altitude, it just looks like a huge hole in the surface of the Earth with no real sense of depth.<\/p>\n

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We recently discovered that one of the absolute best ways to see the Grand Canyon is from a small plane that flies just a few thousand feet above the rim. This top-down, close-up vantage point allows you to see so much more than any of the other methods of visiting. It is awesome!<\/p>\n

Our custom flight over the central part of the Grand Canyon began by having a discussion with our pilot. We explained where we wanted to go and what we wanted to see and, based on his familiarity with the canyon, he gave us suggestions and determined our flightpath.<\/p>\n

Hurricane, Utah<\/h3>\n

The flight started and ended at Hurricane airport which is not far from St. George and Zion National Park (all in Utah). The central part of the Grand Canyon is located about 70 miles south of Hurricane, which isn\u2019t really a long distance when you\u2019re flying at around 100 mph.<\/p>\n

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