Grand Canyon Village is wholly given over to the people who come to see the canyon, and some of its oldest buildings stand right on the South Rim. This map prints the El Tovar Hotel, the Bright Angel Lodge and the Buckey O’Neill Cabin, with Grandeur Point, O’Neill Butte and The Tipoff in shaded relief.
Grand Canyon Village is a census-designated place on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, inside Grand Canyon National Park in Coconino County.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of Grandeur Point, O’Neill Butte and The Tipoff comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The Buckey O’Neill Cabin was checked against National Park Service and National Register of Historic Places records. The village covers 13.4 square miles, all of it land, about 180 miles north of Phoenix, and 2,004 people lived here at the 2010 census.
A town planned around a canyon
The village goes back to the railroad the Santa Fe completed from Williams to the South Rim in 1901, and many of the buildings still in use date from those years. At first, nearly everything here was built by the concessioners. The Santa Fe opened the El Tovar Hotel on the rim in 1905 as a destination hotel, and in 1909 it built a new depot beside it. In 1910, while the canyon was still a national monument, Interior Secretary Richard A. Ballinger suggested a plan before any more building went up, and in 1924 the Park Service landscape architect Daniel Ray Hull drew one. Hull put a “village square” where the railroad met the east road just below the El Tovar, set the neighborhoods on two small hills split by a branch of the Bright Angel drainage, and arranged Park Service houses so cars came in from the back and the fronts faced a shared common space. The village is one of the earliest planned communities to use that layout, ahead of its use at Radburn, New Jersey. Much of the landscaping in the late 1930s was done by the Civilian Conservation Corps, who moved native plants back into ground torn up by construction.
Grand Canyon Village is the largest example of Park Service town planning still standing in the national park system. Its historic core is a National Historic Landmark District, declared on February 18, 1987, and the present district takes in 247 buildings, 55 landscape structures and three sites. The buildings come in two kinds: the fanciful ones built by the concessioners, many designed by Mary Colter, and the plainer National Park Service Rustic buildings that Hull and Thomas Chalmers Vint designed for the park.
The cabin, the lodge and the hotel
William “Buckey” O’Neill built his cabin on the rim in the 1890s. He was an author, sheriff and judge in Arizona before he joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and he was killed in action in Cuba in 1898, but he’d already helped bring about what became the Grand Canyon Railroad and Grand Canyon National Park. The Buckey O’Neill Cabin is the oldest building still standing on the South Rim. In the 1890s it served as an office for tourist lodging, the start of what became the Bright Angel Hotel.
In the 1930s the Santa Fe asked Mary Colter, one of the very few women architects of her day, to design a new Bright Angel Lodge. She kept the O’Neill cabin, built new rustic cabins of log and local stone, and finished the complex in 1935. The lodge’s stone fireplace repeats the rock layers of the Bright Angel Trail in their true order from bottom to top, and the cocktail lounge has murals by the Hopi artist Fred Kabotie. The El Tovar Hotel, designed by Charles Whittlesey of the Santa Fe and opened in January 1905, stands 20 feet from the rim. It’s named for Pedro de Tovar, whose report of a large river in the area inspired the Cárdenas expedition, and Theodore Roosevelt stayed there in 1911 and again in 1913. Colter’s Hopi House, built as a market for Native American crafts made on the site and modeled on the Hopi dwellings at Oraibi, opened just to the east on January 1, 1905, two weeks before the hotel.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Rim Trl, Trailer Village Rd, Yavapai E, Rowe Well Rd, W Rim Dr, Center Rd, E Entrance Rd, Yaki Point Rd, E Rim Dr, FS Rd 809, Brush Rd, FS Rd 328.
More street names, A to Z
FS Rd 50, FS Rd 284, FS Rd 804, FS Rd 2604.
The Grand Canyon Depot, built in 1909 and 1910 across from the El Tovar, is one of three railroad depots left in the United States built mainly of logs, and the Grand Canyon Railway still brings passengers to it from Williams. KUGO, 102.5 FM, broadcasts travelers’ information for visitors from the village. The Community Library, the Grand Canyon School and Market Plaza have their places on the sheet, and Grandeur Point, O’Neill Butte and The Tipoff give the land its shape.
This Grand Canyon Village map is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Grand Canyon Village home, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the village as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Grand Canyon Village map.
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