Saved 1/24/2023

Short information on William Wallace Bass and what becomes the South Bass Trail including Mystic Spring.

Saved 4/11/2020

The following text is taken from the Northern Arizona Libraries online collection of trail logs that were maintained by Harvey Butchart.

This extracts the text from the PDFs that are often presented for the Butchart hiking logs - useful for searching.

Saved 4/9/2020

John Harvey Butchart - Saved 2/22/2020

Transcripts of trail logs, table of contents, and index related to Harvey Butchart's experiences as a Grand Canyon hiker. In more than 40 years of Canyon exploration, Butchart found 108 approaches to the Colorado River, climbed 83 summits within the canyon, and scaled canyon walls at 164 different places. He carefully documented these explorations, both in correspondence with other hikers and in his trail logs, maps, and photographs. Specific locations discussed include Bright Angel Trail, South Kaibab Trail, Glen Canyon, Marble Canyon, Surprise Canyon, and Cataract Canyon. Butchart annotated a series of hiking maps, including western and eastern half of the Grand Canyon and others from throughout the Grand Canyon region. Hiking logs transcribed by Wayne Tomasi, with an index to the transcript compiled by Anthony Williams, and table of contents compiled by Tony Voth. <br>BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: John Harvey Butchart was born to missionary parents in Hofei, China in 1907. He received his early education at an American school in Hofei. After the death of his father in 1916, the family returned to the United States. Butchart attended and graduated from Eureka College in 1929. He earned his master and doctorate of mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1929 and 1932. In 1945 he accepted a job in the Mathematics Department of Arizona State College (ASC, now Northern Arizona University, or NAU) from which he retired in 1976. While there, he became involved with the ASC Hiking Club and served as its sponsor for twelve years. During this time he hiked all of the main trails and many routes in the Grand Canyon. His explorations eventually branched out to abandoned, prehistoric, and animal trails. He died May 29, 2002.

The American Southwest - Saved 2/22/2020

Comanche Point is a trailless overlook on the east side of the Grand Canyon, in the middle of the Palisades of the Desert, reachable by a long but not difficult hike starting from Desert View

The American Southwest - Saved 2/22/2020

Pictures of Mimbreno, Mescalero, Jicarilla and Piute Points, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: Fractured Kaibab limestone at Mimbreno Point

Saved 2/22/2020

Comanche Point, which is several miles east of Desert View, was originally called "Bissel Point" by G.W. James after an official of the Atchison-Topea...

Halne'e - Saved 2/17/2020

Hikers and campers will no longer be given permits to a chunk of the Grand Canyon East rim on the Navajo Nation because of lack of enforcement

Of the articles I found on this issue the seemed to have the broadest layout of viewpoints on the issue.

Grand Canyon National Park - Saved 3/6/2020

If you wish to camp anywhere in the park, other than in developed campgrounds on the North Rim or the South Rim, you must obtain a permit from the Backcountry Information Center.

National Park Service - Saved 3/6/2020

Public scoping for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and revised Backcountry Management Plan was conducted in 2011. The National Park Service (NPS) reviewed the 581 comments submitted, and analyzed, considered and incorporated the ideas and suggestions received during the scoping process into a range of alternatives to be analyzed in the Draft EIS. The Backcountry Management Plan and Draft EIS was released for public review and comment in November 2015. Comments were accepted into April 2016. The document identified and assessed the various alternatives and related environmental impacts relative to park operations, visitor use and access, natural and cultural resources, visitor use and experience, park operations, adjacent lands and wilderness character.

Saved 4/9/2020

Phillips

Saved 5/1/2020

An Administrative History of Grand Canyon National Park by Michael F. Anderson.

https://www.knau.org/people/scott-thybony - 10/6/2022

In Scott Thybony's latest Canyon Commentary, he takes us on a journey to Mystic Spring, in search of the elusive water source.

Brief notes on Mystic Spring and the Montevideo inscription.

Saved 4/11/2020

Map of the Grand Canyon Backcountry Use Areas.

Some hiking maps include this information but it has been useful to me to both see the whole area laid out and to have it in a different format to refer to.

Bob Ribokas - Saved 3/6/2020

Backcountry Use Areas

Nice list of the Grand Canyon Backcountry Use Areas - not possible to tell the last update but more information in one list than I can find in any official link.

Saved 2/22/2020

Find rock climbing routes, photos, and guides for every state, along with real-life experiences and advice from fellow climbers.

Steve Sullivan - Saved 3/6/2020

Saved 4/11/2020

Clarence E. Dutton - Saved 4/9/2020

Grand Canyon National Park - Saved 3/6/2020

Backcountry Trails and Use Areas

Steve Sullivan - Saved 3/6/2020

Saved 5/1/2020

Paiutes, Mormons and Mericats: A History of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument is a partially complete, but very interesting, July 2009 Draft Document by Frederick L. Brown containing a history of the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument from the late 19th century into the 1930s.

Saved 4/11/2020

The Butchart hiking logs are a well known resource but NAU archives other materials including photos - this search is a start to seeing them since there are digital versions!

Dennis Foster - 10/1/1995

A hike looking for Mystic Spring and matching several photos from George Wharton James' book, In and Around the Grand Canyon.

Phil Clark - Saved 2/16/2020

The Navajo Parks and Recreation Department has suspended issuing non-commercial backcountry permits for the East Rim of the Grand Canyon, an area which is on Navajo Nation lands. Hikers and campers will no longer be issued permits and all non-tribal use of the lands are prohibited.

Saved 4/11/2020

The Cline Library of Northern Arizona University hosts the Harvey Butchart Collection, the maps and trail logs of famed Grand Canyon backpacker Harvey Butchart (1907–2002) who taught in their mathematics department. They have generously made the entire collection available on their web site. But they list his annotated Grand Canyon National Park topographic maps and USGS quadrangles alphabetically, by name, which makes them difficult to browse. So I have constructed the following index map — simply click on one of the orange boxes to open the map covering that area:

Useful way to browse the Butchart maps.

Rick - Saved 2/16/2020

UPDATE - Marble Canyon Closure • 9/3/19The Navajo Nation released an update to the recent closure of access to Marble Canyon via Navajo reservation lands. The closure now only affects the access to the Tatahatso Point area.  Permits for all other areas are being issued by the Navajo Tribal Park. Please respect the closure of

National Park Service - Saved 3/6/2020

From the 2011 Grand Canyon Backcountry Management Plan.

Dated but an excellent visual of park usage.

Clarence E. Dutton - Saved 4/9/2020

Steve Sullivan - Saved 5/16/2020

The American Southwest - Saved 2/22/2020

Topographic map of the Comanche Point Trail, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - from the Cedar Mountain Road near Desert View, northwards to a remote canyon viewpoint

John Harvey Butchart - 12/29/1957

Photo from the summit of Comanche Point.