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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish someone said the Grand Canyon is not kid friendly and pretty dangerous and it’s not that impressive in my opinion. I loved the arches at Utah but something about our Grabd Canyon trip was a bust. [/quote]

Dangerous, how so? Thanks![/quote]

NP- A misstep on a trail and you are dead. You sit on a ledge and lose balance? You could be dead. It is a very dangerous place for small kids, you could not let a 2yo out of your sight for 2 seconds without them being at risk near the rim. I have vertigo so stayed on the paved biked trail and went viewpoint to viewpoint that way. I disagree about it not being impressive though, it is breathtaking, but the hiking is inherently dangerous.[/quote]

There’s a whole book about people who have died at the Grand Canyon broken into chapters like heat exhaustion, falling, jumping, animal bites, etc.  I don’t think any of them are kids though—it’s mostly adults who don’t take nature seriously.  I would not take toddlers or preschoolers down the trials into the canyon—they are narrow and can have a sharp drop.   I hiked bright angel trail basically by myself at 14 and was fine (was with a school group hiking down but they left us by ourselves to make our way back up).   I’ve taken kids as young as 10.  I think  a responsible 6 year old would be fine.   I don’t really see how you could fall in from the rim.  There are nice  stone walls pretty much everywhere.  If you let your kid dance on top of the wall, I guess maybe, but don’t do that.

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