Toroweap and Nampaweap

Toroweap & Tuweep

The Toroweap area is located in a very remote region in the western section of Grand Canyon on the North Rim. It has one of the classic views of the inner canyon with a 3000 foot sheer vertical drop to the Colorado River and one of its most notorious rapids, Lava Falls. Spectacularly dramatic! Toroweap is a Paiute word meaning “dry or barren valley”, and they aren’t joking! Far away from any visitor services barring nine primitive campsites and one primitive group site (information below), no water, no firewood, and at least 60 miles /100 km to the nearest small town on a bumpy washboard dirt road.
Getting There Tuweep is accessible year-round, however, accessible DOES NOT mean easy! The park states that 25% of visitors get one or more flat tires on the road to or from Tuweep. So good tires and at least one GOOD spare tire is essential. Also having extra water, food, and fuel as well as tools and a working knowledge on using them are VERY WISE when visiting. Cell phone service is spotty or non-existent, so you cannot count on calling your way out of a predicament either. There is NO telephone or cell coverage at Tuweep/Toroweap.
Luckily, our friend Heidi is a professional photographer so we got some AMAZING photos!

 I took the ones below with my cell phone ;)