Canyon REO Employee Favorites

 Caroline
Favorite Hike: Any place I haven’t seen before
Favorite Rapid: Hance
Favorite Camp: Anywhere warm and under the stars

 Donnie
Favorite Hike: Tapeats Creek/Thunder River
Favorite Rapid: High water- Hermit and at Low water- Roaring 20’s
Favorite Camp: With my wife at any big sandy beach and a wet hike nearby

 Casey
Favorite Hike: Anywhere between LCR and Crash Canyon (plane site is amazing) or Redwall Cavern for the climbing.
Favorite Camp: Nankoweap for that December sun
Favorite Rapid: Sockdolager or Deubendorf

 Sharon
Favorite Hike: Havasu or Travertine Falls
Favorite Rapid: Hiking around Lava
Favorite Camp: Upper Ledges

 Heather
Favorite Hike: Matkatimba
Favorite Rapid: the waves of Hermit
Favorite Camp: No Name camp for a very small group river left above National, or Pancho’s Kitchen

More suggestions for great places to explore

There are so many great places in the Canyon. With luck and curiosity, every time you go you’ll discover someplace new and have a different experience of the places you’ve been before. Here are a few more suggestions with photos of some of our other favorite places in the Canyon.

Good Summer Hikes

• Silver Grotto
• Nankoweap
• Shinumo Wash
• Tapeats Creek
• Deer Creek
• Matkatimba
• Elves Chasm

Good Winter Hikes

• Tanner
• Unkar Delta
• Tapeats Creek (sunny but wet)
• National
• Whitmore
• Granite Park

Warm Winter Camps

• Nankoweap
• Unkar
• Tanner
• National
• Any camp after Lava Falls

Archeological sites

• Above Tanner rapid, river right, visit the throne chair, pottery shards, Anasazi dwellings

Best Foul Weather Camp

• Pancho’s Kitchen