Advantages

The advantages of the North Rim are:
1: it's much less crowded, and
2: its altitude is 1,000 ft. above the more popular South Rim, which is to mention that the canyon when seen from the North Rim is 1,000 ft. deeper than as seen from the South Rim;
3: the view from the table windows within the restaurant within the North Rim lodge is one among the simplest views of the Grand Canyon anywhere on either rim, and
4: everything considered, i feel the simplest views on either rim are the view from the North rim's Cape Royal.
Disadvantages
1: On the North Rim, you face south to seem into the canyon, therefore the sun is quite in your eyes except at sunset and sunrise, when views are best anyhow due to the lighting. Important Note: We visit the North Rim in October, when the sun is far lower within the sky that in midsummer. i think the sun in our eyes problem (its not really much of a drag either, but it's a drag that's not seen from the South Rim at all), but if you stay here overnight, you'll see the canyon at sunrise and sunset with the sun not in your face.
2: Unlike the South Rim, the North Rim isn't open year round. thanks to its higher altitude, the road is blocked by winter snows, although not such a lot lately due to artificial heating .
The Views

The North Rim Lodge, restaurants, and North Rim Visitors Center are at Bright Angel Point. There are tables within the dining room that look right down into the canyon. The view from the front window tables within the dinning room offer you a sensation of floating within the air above the canyon because you can't see the rim, about 5 feet away and 10 ft below the window tables. there's a restaurant in Eze Village, France, that produces an equivalent sensation, such as you are floating within the air above the Mediterranean, but Eze Village is merely 1,100 ft above the water.

The best rim views from the North Rim are on the 52 mile drive trip from the North Rim Visitor's Center to Cape Royal and Point Imperial. At 8,800 ft above water level , Point Imperial is that the highest point on either rim.
Hikes and Walks

The Bright Angel Trail may be a trail to rock bottom of the canyon. it's quite a mile more straight right down to the river, but the matter comes when it's more that a mile straight up to urge back. That's why most who descend to rock bottom of the canyon ride the mules on Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim. Either way, take many water, for the temperature often increases 30-40 degrees F (roughly 10 degrees C) as you go down. the brilliant Angel Trail is that the only hiking trial that connects both rims of the Grand Canyon , but note this, if you are doing it a method , its 234 miles by road back to where you started.

The Bright Angel Point Trail are some things different. Every road accessible view point on both rims of the Grand Canyon are located on the highest of the canyon rim except Bright Angel Point, which may be a peninsula extending out into the canyon from the rim. From the rim, you see a 180 degree view of the canyon. The view from Bright Angel Point is nearly 360 degrees-- look straight ahead, which is that the south rim view too. Then look to the left, look to the proper , look behind you and each look looks down into the depths of the canyon

There short and long trails along the rim which are relatively flat. Flat is is sweet because at 8,000 ft above water level , most visitors are going to be gulping for oxygen with fairly little exertion.
Lodging

The largest town in Arizona on the North Rim side of the Grand Canyon features a population 1,314 people. The North Rim doesn't survive local visitors. Everybody who visits the North Rim is from distant and wishes an area for the night. Rooms at the North Rim Lodge either face the canyon or, on the opposite side, the forest. there's also a motel and a cabin village on the brink of the lodge. we've never stayed there because visiting the North Rim isn't a once in lifetime experience for us. Instead, its a scenic excursion to urge there. we've always stayed in Kanab, UT, a few 90 minute drive from the North Rim. Rooms in Kanab are way less costly . Kanab is a smaller amount than a two hour drive from Zion park and from Bryce canyon park . NOTE: the North Rim Lodge requires advanced reservations, possibly as long as a year ahead.

There also are scattered motels, dude ranches, and lodges on the road to the North Rim in and south of Jacob's Lake, AZ. once we visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon , we usually stop at Jacob's Lake Inn for dinner when returning to Kanab instead of erode the inferior restaurants in Kanab. the standard of the food at Jacob Inn would tempt me to remain there if we wanted lodging an hour closer to the North Rim than Kanab.
In the Neighborhood

The Grand Canyon is one among 9 National Parks on the vast Colorado Plateau . you can't schedule a visit long enough to completely see the wonders of the Colorado Plateau , but on the size of the Colorado Plateau , here are some relatively nearby places worth seeing: Pipe Stream memorial (a real Wild West Ranch); Vermilion Cliffs, the second step of the Grand Staircase; The highway goes right down to river level at Lee's Ferry, important in Utah History and within the history of the Wild West . Near Page, AZ and Lake Powell:, Goose Necks, and Antelope Slot Canyon. Antelope Canyon requires advanced reservations, possible as long as a year ahead.
A Little Geology

More than a mile below the edges , the Colorado River didn't carve its way down through the rocks to make the Grand Canyon . The river is where it always was while tectonic forces slowly lifted rock bottom of a 100,000,000 old sea up to the altitude of today's Colorado Plateau , reaching almost 12,000 ft above water level on Boulder Mountain, the last “step within the Grand Staircase.

From the river, at about 2,600 ft altitude at rock bottom of the Grand Canyon , the North Rim (8,000 ft.) is that the initiative of the Grand Staircase. The Vermilion Cliffs are the second step, then the white Grey and pink cliffs (Bryce Canyon). From Bryce Canyon (8,000 ft.) you'll see the last step, the Aquarius Plateau, quite 10,000 ft. altitude and , about 200 miles north of the Grand Canyon .

The rock colors come from different layers of sandstone that were deposited on the ocean floor over 300 million years. Making an extended story short, the dominant reddish rock colors come from rusting sand.