Amena--Grand+Canyon

**__ The Grand Canyon National Park __**
**// What is the Grand Canyon? //** The Grand Canyon is an amazing tourist site. Many people flock to visit it every year. It is a great beauty and an amazing sight to see. Anyone who goes here does not forget the Canyons beauty.

**// Where is the canyon located? //** The Grand Canyon lies on the Colorado Plateau in Northwestern Arizona. It also touches the borders of Utah and Nevada. The Colorado River is also located here and is always at work widening and deepening the canyon.

**// Why is the Grand Canyon important? //** The Grand Canyon is an important place. President T. Roosevelt named the Grand Canyon a national monument in 1908. Scientists think the Grand Canyon was made 70 million years ago. Native Americans have been living here for more than 4000 years.

**// How did the canyon form? //** The Grand Canyon was formed by erosion. It has grown and is now 1.2 million acres long. The canyon stretches east and west across northwestern Arizona for 277 miles (466 km). The canyon lies on the Colorado plateau in northwestern Arizona.

**// How is the place being used right now? //** Right now the Grand Canyon is being used as a tourist sight and a big tourist attraction. At the Grand Canyon you can hike and explore most of the canyon’s magnificent beauty. The Grand Canyon is also a very popular national monument. ** What are some nature sights in the Grand Canyon? ** The Grand Canyon is a great beauty. It has beautiful nature sights and many animals, some of the animals include… big horn sheep, pink rattle snakes, scorpions, and raven crows. Some of the famous sight of the canyon include, the painted dessert, the monument valley, the horse shoe mesa, and the sunset cater volcano. The Grand Canyon’s famous plant is the alkali plant. A famous quote that has been said about the Grand Canyon is form Theodore Roosevelt, and he stated, “The one great sight… every American should see”

**// What are some of the most famous sights of the Canyon? //** The most famous sights of the Grand Canyon include, The South Rim, which is by far the most visited place in the Grand Canyon, 90% of the five million people who visit the park each year will spend their time here. The Colorado River also winds through the bottom of the Canyon. The Watch Tower at Dessert View was built in 1932. Mule trains are a great and very popular way to explore the canyon. **// What do I think will happen in the future? //** In the future I think that there are going to be more visitors/tourists because, for a few years the Grand Canyon has been having not a very big amount of tourists, so to fix that problem they are going green, to get a bigger amount of tourists to come in and see the Canyon’s beauty.

The Grand Canyon is a wonderful nature sight that everyone should get a chance to see. There are plenty of plants great sights and many animals. One someone has toured the Grand Canyon, they never forget it.



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