Best Desert View Drive Day Trips & Things to Do

Stretching 25 miles in Grand Canyon National Park from Grand Canyon Village to Desert View Watchtower, this roadway is lined with amazing viewpoints, picnic areas, vehicle pullouts and the Tusayan Ruin and Museum. Desert View Drive, also referred to as East Rim Drive, contains the points of Yaki, Grandview, Moran, Lipan, Navajo and Desert View. The Tusayan Ruin and Museum has remnants of an ancient Puebloan village and educational materials on the area's former inhabitants.