Considering its location in the Grand Canyon, this location is a very remote. This is due to the trail in being so rough that is inaccessible to mechanized vehicles. Most of the trail is along a dried out river bed. If you want to visit, you must do so by foot. The trail in is about 14 km to the campground. Everyday horses and mules traverse this trail carrying goods for the town. However, if you are capable of the smack-down, this is no walk in park, hike, you will be rewarded with a truly unique place. Tropical oasis, bright blue, swimable waterfalls in the midst of the desert.

If the smack down hike to the campground wasn’t enough, then maybe the Stairway of Death to the bottom of Mooney Falls, (the tallest falls in the series) might interest you. The falls are made of travertine. Ironically, while most water falls recede, cutting backwards through rock, these falls of super mineralized water deposit rock, and are in fact moving down river, not up. There is no easy way down. In order to get there, you must travel through 2 narrow caves that look like lava tubes, a terrace, then a near vertical rocky scrambling wall with chains, spikes and 2 ladders. The entertaining thing about it all being, that if you lose you grip on one of the shiny, well worn, rocks you won’t necessarily fall to your demise. There is a good chance you might be snagged on one of the ample steel posts sticking out of the rock.