Lipan Point

Lipan Point has a gate, so here's the plan. In a quarter mile on your left, No Name Point is an unsigned pullout with railings and a view to the north and northwest. Just past it, also on your left, Lipan's own road runs about four tenths of a mile to the point, and it has been closed for work. If the gate's shut, don't park along the highway. Keep on a mile to Navajo Point, on your left, on a short spur. At seven thousand four hundred sixty-one feet it's the highest overlook on the South Rim. Only the top of the Watchtower stands higher. If Lipan's road is open, go. The park says the tilted Grand Canyon Supergroup shows to this extent from only a few places on the South Rim, and Lipan is one of them. The railway's old tourist literature called Navajo Point Painted Desert View, then simply Desert View, and sold it on sunrise. The Tanner Trail starts near Lipan Point, and it's believed to have been a horse thief trail, in what was once called Horsethief Canyon. In September of nineteen twenty-nine a very large rattler was captured alive on it, and that snake became the type specimen for the Grand Canyon rattlesnake. It's often pink, and it's found nowhere else in the world. If you hike it, watch your feet.