Restricted Sites

Comic-panel canyon overlook with a host comparing a mythical tomb sketch against a plain park regulations booklet

Grand Canyon Myths vs. Documented Restricted Sites

A 1909 cave myth meets the park’s actual closure rules for caves, mines, cultural resources and working facilities. What is closed, and why?

Labeled cutaway illustration of the Little Park bison capture corral showing fencing, a loading chute, and livestock trailers in a mountain meadow

Little Park: the North Rim's Bison Capture Corral

A closed North Rim meadow hides a livestock corral built to catch wild bison descended from a 1906 failed cattle-crossbreeding scheme.

Illustration of a remote, forested North Rim firing range clearing behind a closed gate with a utility line running alongside the access road

North Rim Firing Range — The Same Closure, a Thinner Record

The North Rim’s own closed firing range, restricted under the same rule as the South Rim’s, with a much thinner public paper trail.

Cutaway illustration of a fenced firing range on the South Rim with a closed gate, warning signage, and a distant ranger silhouette on the firing line

South Rim Firing Range — Why It's Closed Around the Clock

A fenced range and access road on the South Rim, closed to the public at all hours so rangers can train and qualify on firearms without endangering visitors.

Labeled illustration comparing a pumphouse closure sign reading critical infrastructure against other park closure signs with different wording, all under one shared regulation banner

The One Time Grand Canyon's Rulebook Says "Critical Infrastructure"

The park’s closure rulebook uses the phrase only once, for one pumphouse — every other infrastructure closure runs on the same law, different wording.