Grandview Trail to the West Arm of Horseshoe Mesa
Grandview Point
I took my first trip down the Grandview Trail on August 14th.
It’s an old, historic miners’ trail, toward the eastern end of the Grand Canyon. It doesn’t go all the way to the Colorado River. Instead, its destination is 3 miles below the rim at Horseshoe Mesa – a large U-shaped landmass that was the site of an elaborate copper mine around 1900. On this hike I went out to the western tip of the horseshoe, about an 8 mile round trip.
Grandview is popular for its steepness and mild exposure.
This is the Horseshoe Mesa as seen from above, destination of the Grandview Trail.
This sort of image is what most people imagine when they think of hiking the Grand Canyon.
The construction of the trail is amazing – these structures are still standing after over a hundred years. Whenever I hike Grandview, the recurring theme in my mind is always, “Those miners must have been some crazy guys.”
This is basically what they mean when they say “rugged” and “unmaintained.”
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