Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument

Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is a national monument protecting more than 900,000 acres around the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. President Joe Biden established it under the authority of the Antiquities Act on 8 August 2023. It is administered by the United States Forest Service, within Kaibab National Forest, and by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Conservation Lands. The area was already protected from most development; the designation made permanent a twenty-year moratorium on new uranium mining imposed in 2012. The name joins Havasupai words meaning 'where tribes roam' with Hopi words meaning 'our ancestral footprints', and many sites within the monument are held sacred by the peoples who have lived in the region since time immemorial.

Where it is

Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is a national monument near Tusayan, in Coconino County. It is one of the national monuments in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Mentioned in

• Arizona has three national parks, and one of them takes 77 per cent of the visits — Grand Canyon recorded 4,919,163 visits in 2024 against 1,505,623 for Saguaro and Petrified Forest combined — more than three times the other two together.

Sources

• Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
• Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates

Record last verified 2026-08-12.