Mexican Hat Utah to Grand Canyon North Rim (248 Miles)

We were pleased to leave Mexican Hat after a hot stay but did not anticipate how cooler things would get by the end of the day.

We headed out through Monument Valley to a town called Page which had lots of boats on trailers but no sign of water. There was a large power station there but not much else. Shortly after that we came down the side of the canyon and stopped at a viewpoint which gave us tremendous views over the valley. There were also quite a few local Indians selling hand made jewellery and their work was very different than what we have seen in the past.

After continuing down we turned left at the bottom of the valley and headed up to the end so that we could cross a bridge at Marble Canyon to enable us to get to the North Rim.

We had decided in our planning before we left that we would see both sides of the Grand Canyon as most people only see it from the South Rim.

After crossing the bridge (See photo) we continued up the other side of the valley and after about 20 miles we started climbing and as we got higher the scenery got much better and the temperature dropped dramatically. Along both sides of the road there were conifers growing with large tracts of green grassland in between.

We eventually arrived at the North Rim Lodge where we were staying and the altitude was 9,832 feet and it was getting quite cool. After checking in to our unit we wandered around taking photo's before having a lovely meal at the main lodge which had huge windows overlooking the canyon.

Checking out the view from the North Rim.

The views are breathtaking...

Kerry's view from the back seat...

View from the bridge at Marble Canyon which crosses

the Colorado River.

Another of Kerry's magnificent shots from the back of the bike.