0.1 miles away
Mather Point
A South Rim viewpoint at 7,119 feet, named after Stephen Tyng Mather and looking north across Granite Gorge up Bright Angel Canyon.
Rim Trail
A paved 13-mile trail along the Grand Canyon's South Rim, from the South Kaibab Trailhead west to Hermit's Rest.
- Rank in Arizona
- #237of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 44.6 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
The Rim Trail is a hiking trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Grand Canyon National Park. It runs 13 miles from the South Kaibab Trailhead west to Hermit's Rest. The trail is paved and generally flat, and passes a series of viewpoints. Several points along it lie near car parks and shuttle bus stops, so single sections can be walked on their own.
Where it is
Rim Trail is a natural landmark near Grand Canyon, in Coconino County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Rim Trail, 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.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/RimTrail.pdf(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Nearby attractions
0.8 miles away
Grand Canyon National Park
A mile-deep gorge cut by the Colorado River through two billion years of rock, and the fifteenth US national park.
1.0 miles away
Tonto Trail
A hiking trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Grand Canyon National Park, northern Arizona.
1.6 miles away
Hopi House
Mary Colter's first Grand Canyon building, opened in 1905 as a market for Hopi crafts and modelled on a Hopi pueblo.
1.6 miles away
South Kaibab Trail
A Grand Canyon trail from Yaki Point following a ridgeline to the Colorado River, steeper and less shaded than the Bright Angel.
1.7 miles away
Grand Canyon Village Historic District
A census-designated place on the Grand Canyon's South Rim whose historic core is a National Historic Landmark District of tourist-era buildings.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Grand Canyon
- County
- Coconino County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 44.6 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 28.5
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- nps.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 36.0621, -112.1094
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12