The Grand Canyon National Park reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon
Designation	National Park
Location	North West Arizona, United States
Nearest City	Flagstaff, Arizona
Latitude	36° 12' N
Longitude	113° 14' W
Area	1,217,403 acres
Date of Establishment	January 11, 1908 (National Monument), February 26, 1919 (National Park)
Visitation	3,936,823 (2002)
Governing Body	National Park Service
IUCN category	II (National Park)

The Grand Canyon National Park is one of the oldest National Parks in the United States. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world.

The area around the Grand Canyon became a United States National Monument on January 11, 1908 and was designated National Park on February 26, 1919. The creation of the park was an early success of the environmental conservation movement; it was motivated in part by the flooding of what was considered an even more impressive gorge to create Glen Canyon Dam.

External Links

• National Park Service/Grand Canyon National Park

This is the "Grand Canyon National Park" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.