Though but a speck on the lofty rim of the Grand Canyon in relative terms, the Grand Canyon Skywalk has generated a canyon-size buzz in the popular media. The Hualapai Indians of western Grand Canyon have been working with a variety of investors and developers to construct a sixty-five foot, see-through platform suspended thousands of feet above the floor of the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon Skywalk, which opened on March 28, is said to be able to withstand the weight of seventy-one fully loaded Boeing 747 airplanes (more than 70 million pounds), though only 120 people will be allowed onto the glass bridge at any given time.
This high-profile attraction is the latest attempt by the Hualapai Nation to increase visitation to their tourist enterprise known as Grand Canyon West—located within the boundaries of the 2000-member tribe’s one million acre reservation in northern Arizona.
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