The Grand Canyon is a vast deep sided gorge carved out by the weather and the Colorado River over million of years. It is about 277 miles long; the width at the widest is 18 mile wide and the depth of more than a mile. The first recorded sighting of the canyon was by a Spanish man in 1540 Garcia Lopez de Cardenas. The first expedition was by the explorer John Wesley Powell in the 1860’s. But before this it was inhabited by Native Americans.

It became a national forest preserve in 1893 and in 1908 a National Monument and finally in 1919 it became a National Park. The Grand Canyon is a well known and popular tourist attraction.
 
Over the years there have been many deaths due to the Grand Canyon and surrounding areas, these include people dying from rescue missions, helicopter accidents, drowning and falling accidents
 
 
A ghost known as the ‘wandering women’ roams the north rim of the canyon, it is thought that she is still searching for her lost family, the legend goes that she committed suicide in one of the lodges in the 1920’s when she learned that her husband and son were killed in a hiking accident.
Also some people have heard the voices of children and have seen them playing on swings. (There used to be a playground, which is no longer there)