I was there this year. I never desired to see it but I was “in the area”. It’s insane, it really is. You’re 7000ft above sea level in a big flat plateau that goes for a hundred miles in every direction. And then there’s this huge, 1 mile deep, 7 mile wide trench in the ground. I did a light hike of about 1 hour down and 1.5hrs back up from the south Kaibab trail. Now I’m no trail runner, but I do a decent pace. I made it most of the way down into that white layer near the top. Through the brown/green and through most of the white, but didn’t touch red. An hour of cliffside zigzag to not even really be in the canyon. I probably could have made it to the cedar point in the red but I didn’t want to help the Rangers reach their annual rescue goal

Beautiful place. Go off season and early to avoid the bulk of the tourists.

Nice, you can see the curvature of the earth, assuming this isnt a lens thing.

The blue, blue sky really makes this photo. Beautiful work