Why Are There Not More Private Hotels At The South Rim Of Grand Canyon?

Posted: 4/19/2014

Committing Heresy

I would suspect that such a question would be considered a heresy by many people without first thinking about it more thoroughly.

However, I have recently visited the South Rim (SR) of the Grand Canyon National Park for the first time.

Current Situation

There are 6-8 lodgings currently available at the SR as part of Grand Canyon Village. Some of them date back to the earliest tourist hotels available around the early 20th century. To keep it short, I will not go into details here about these hotels.

Apparently, staff working at the SR facilities are allowed to live up there in dormitories etc.

Federal Big Government Propaganda

Americans and the rest of the world have been kind of brainwashed for decades that only a powerful big central government could ensure the beauty of nature against private greed and commercialism and U.S. state ignorance.

Consequences

Government run hotels there are:

1. Affordable, but wait times for reservations can be a year perhaps longer unless you are willing to wait for a short-noticed cancellation
2. Prices for rooms do not fluctuate as would be the case if they were run by private businesses
3. Too few rooms are available at the SR to accommodate the 5 million or sor annual tourists
4. Thus, many tourists stay in William, Flagstaff, or Tuba City, which are 50 to 80 miles away from the SR
5. There appear relatively more camping accommodations available at the SR than hotel rooms. This is great for outdoor people and supposedly preserves the beauty more than hotels

When Big Government Builds Hotels At The South Rim

Apparently in the 1970s, big government allowed two more hotels to be built facing the SR close to the SR. I do not know the details of it.

However, these two hotels are so ugly 1970s (see picture nearby) that the old log-wood hotels build by Kolb brothers or Fred Harvey look like marvels compared to these eye sores.

Tune In For More

There is a lot more to say about Federal Big Government and its national parks/forrests etc., which I hope to cover in future blog posts, e.g.

1. Expulsion of private land owners and native americans
2. A land grab and expropriation on a enormous scale
3. Anti free market, anti individual liberty attitude of the National Park Service