Labeled cutaway map-style illustration of the Grand Canyon South Rim showing paved public highways alongside a maze of gated dirt fire roads behind locked gates

Service Roads and Restricted Government Roads of the Grand Canyon

Behind the two public highways sits a second network of gated fire roads, firing-range roads and wilderness closures. What’s shut, to whom, and why.

September 23, 2026 · 7 min · 1404 words · Justin