Kanabownits, AZ

Overview
This is the alternate northern entrance to GCNP via FR268B that also accesses Swamp Ridge and Point. There's a gate at the boundary that closes similarly as the main North Rim entrance in the winter season. This access point has become popular with side-by-side and/or four-wheeler groups, who often trailer camp in the adjacent Kaibab National Forest during the hotter months and during the fall hunting season.


Drive
After gapping the park gate, one will drive less than two-tenths of a mile before reaching a three-way junction. Swamp Ridge is straight and Kanabownits is left (east), where the road steeply drops into Tipover Canyon. Continuing south on the often rough, rooty, sandy, possibly snowy and muddy track, one will cross Big Spring Canyon at about two miles. Between 3.5 and 4.5-miles, the road tracks through Kanab Canyon along Crescent Ridge, eventually reaching the Kanabownits fire tower and cabin junctions at about 5.8-miles. The road ultimately transects the Point Sublime Road at Walla Valley. Left (east) is the direction to Harvey Meadow, right (west) terminates at Point Sublime.Synopsis
An alternate approach for Point Sublime, but mainly this road is utilized to ingress two other common inner canyon access routes, specifically Lancelot and Galahad Points. Also attainable from Kanabownits are several peaks in this section of Grand Canyon, which would be Excalibur, plus Elaine, Guinevere and King Arthur Castles.

2024-02-05 pseudalpine