Resource Issue: Escalade

Grassroots Navajo families organized themselves as Save the Confluence to protect the Grand Canyon from a tourist tramway.

This rendering shows the general boundaries of the proposed Grand Canyon Escalade project.

See a map of the proposed Escalade development on Navajo Nation land near Grand Canyon National Park.

A developer-written bill calls on the Najavo Nation Council to approve “Grand Canyon Escalade”, a resort located above the sacred confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers, including a tramway to carry up to 10,000 tourists a day to the bottom of Grand Canyon. The bill would establish Confluence Partners, LLC (Scottsdale-based partner R. Lamar Whitmer, […]