Grand Canyon Skywalk
The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge with a glass walkway at Eagle Point in Arizona near the Colorado River, on the edge of a side canyon in the Grand Canyon West area of the main canyon. It opened as a tourist attraction in 2007, located outside the boundaries of the Grand Canyon National Park. USGS topographic maps indicate the Skywalk's elevation as above sea level. The elevation of the Colorado River at the base of the canyon below is . The vertical drop directly below the skywalk is . The attraction is immediately north of Grand Canyon West Airport and about east of Las Vegas, Nevada, although nearly by car. The nearest city with a population greater than 10,000 people is Kingman, Arizona, about south. Commissioned and owned by the Hualapai Indian tribe, the skywalk was unveiled March 20, 2007, and opened to the general public on March 28, 2007. The attraction's operators have reported over one million visitors per year several times, first occurring in 2015. Design and construction David Jin, an entrepreneur who had been involved with tourism and the Hualapai Nation for some time, had the idea of extending a platform out over the