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Drivers must yield to shuttle buses and observe posted speed limits. Backpackers with permits in the Boucher and Hermit areas are given the gate combination for Hermit Road. Taxi service is available 24-hours a day, 92. Private automobiles are not allowed to access the South Kaibab trailhead. A free hikers’ shuttle goes to the South Kaibab trailhead from the Backcountry Information Center, Bright Angel Lodge, and Yavapai Lodge. It is a short walk over to the Bright Angel Trailhead. South Rim: Hikers can park at the Backcountry Information Center (parking lot D). However the South Kaibab option is definitely more popular because of its beauty and shorter distance. It’s nice because you can park at the trailhead and start your hike. Why not Bright Angel to North Kaibab? You can certainly do the South to North hike this way, and plenty of people do. If you can get the overnight at Phantom Ranch this is a big win, if not, the day hike is the way to go if you don’t want to carry camping gear or cannot get a back country permit. Contrast that with arriving at the South Rim, where you’re faced a place literally teeming in tourists and tour buses. It feels like you’ve really hiked to someplace different. You’ll have left the desert-feeling South Rim and arrive at a higher altitude pine forest on the North Rim. Arriving at the North Rim is a much more peaceful experience.If you leave early you can generally clear the hottest part of the hike before the hottest part of the day. It’s only about 7 miles to the bottom of the Canyon.The north rim is higher in elevation, which means more climbing, however, but it is spread out over a longer distance making the climb easier.This route is 3 miles shorter than the other.The recommended route for doing the rim to rim hike for the first time is from the South Rim to the North Rim via the South Kaibab Trail (and not the Bright Angel Trail although this is an option):
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