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[quote=Anonymous][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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Thank you. I'm the one who asked the question and this is what I was picturing. I guess this brings up the questions of what activities are or aren't worth it to do there at all. We're probably more the type of family that just wants to see the highlights, but also we don't have any really young kids if we did want to hike. So we will figure that out if we ever plan a trip there.[/quote]

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