As if the Grand Canyon needed more sprucing, mother nature gave one of the seven natural wonders of the world a layer of snow just in time for the New Year.
With temperatures dipping well below seasonal, a rare major snowfall on New Year’s Eve transformed the barren desert lands and canyon’s North and South rims into a winter wonderland.
The Grand Canyon National Park Service wrote on its Facebook page that “this was quite the storm… one to be remembered.”
“It often snows on the North and South Rims during the winter. What is not so common is for it to be cold enough for the snow to reach the bottom of Grand Canyon.”
For those who have never been to the Grand Canyon, it is 446 kilometres long and is up to 29 kilometres wide. It has a maximum depth of 1,800 metres – about 600 metres taller than Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain.
The canyon was carved by the waters of the Colorado River two billions of years, and its layers unravels the region’s geological history.
Image: Grand Canyon National Park Service
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