Grandview Point
— — the canyon without the crowd at the rail.
Not only on a wall.
“A high promontory on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, twelve miles east of the village along Desert View Drive. Grandview sits at about 7,400 feet, well above the main viewpoints, and looks straight down on Horseshoe Mesa where Pete Berry mined copper in the 1890s. The trailhead beside the lot drops nearly three thousand feet to the mesa in three miles, which keeps the rim mostly quiet. The light here is best in the last hour before sunset, when the buttes east of the mesa burn rust and the river goes dark. From the studio.
Grandview Point, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Grandview Point lies on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Coconino County, Arizona, about twelve miles east of Grand Canyon Village along Desert View Drive. The overlook stands at 7,399 feet, one of the higher rim viewpoints, and looks north onto Horseshoe Mesa, the Vishnu Schist of the inner gorge, and the long line of the Walhalla Plateau on the far rim. It is also the trailhead for the Grandview Trail, an unmaintained route built in 1893 by Pete Berry to reach the Last Chance copper mine on the mesa below.
Because the South Rim climbs eastward, Grandview is roughly 400 feet higher than Mather Point near the village. The added elevation thins the air, drops summer afternoon temperatures by several degrees, and pushes the snow line earlier in the fall. Storms build off the San Francisco Peaks to the southeast in July and August and arrive as the classic North Arizona monsoon — short, hard, and visible from twenty miles off across the canyon. The viewpoint sits inside the ponderosa pine and juniper belt; the smell of warm pine bark belongs to this rim, not to the lower overlooks.
Grandview is on the free Desert View Drive (Highway 64) and is open to private cars all year, unlike the western Hermit Road which closes to private traffic in season. The Grandview Trail begins at the rim and loses about 2,500 feet in three miles to Horseshoe Mesa; the National Park Service classifies it as unmaintained and steep, with no water and significant exposure. Most visitors stay at the rim. The nearest services — fuel, food, lodging — are at Grand Canyon Village to the west or Desert View to the east.