Shortpoet-GTD, on 22 February 2015 - 06:43 AM, said:
Plans are in the works for the "Escalade"; a tram for tourists, a slew of gift shops, etc.....
Another article here on the same subject:
http://www.nytimes.c...lash.html That Smithsonian article seems a little slanted too much for my taste. Not quite clear that the Escalade development is to be on Navaho reservation land, not within the Grand Canyon National Park. The photo above is right in the middle of the National Park, not twenty crows-flight miles east at the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers , and at least one of the photos in the Smithsonian article really looks to me like a photoshopped montage. While I too am against the "disneyfication" of National Parks, providing economic benefit for the Navaho on Navaho land might be a good thing. The Navaho have to figure out the right balance between preservation and development. That Escalade thing might end up being not so bad or might be really ugly. Depends on the details. Regarding that other Tusayan thing, outside the southern edge of Grand Canyon National Park, when I last drove through some years ago it was already a pretty schlocky area.
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