Republic climate reporter Joan Meiners gets a stunning view near the Grand Canyon's Desert View watchtower on Day 6 of her ...

About 25 miles east of the Grand Canyon’s busy South Rim tourist village, the Desert View Watchtower stands like an 800-year-old stone sentry. Except that it’s barely 80 years old, designed by ...

Go to Desert View Watchtower in Grand Canyon National Park. It’s 25 miles east of the South Rim’s teeming Grand Canyon Village, so many travelers miss it. (It’s not on the park’s shuttle bus routes, ...

You can help the Grand Canyon land a $250,000 grant to preserve one of the national park’s most recognizable structures. The Desert View Watchtower is one of 20 competitors vying for funds in a ...

PHOENIX — Conservationists have finished the four-year project to conserve five floors of murals in a Grand Canyon National Park watchtower. The murals in the 70-foot Desert View Watchtower were ...

The iconic tower marking the eastern entrance to Grand Canyon National Park is getting serious repairs to a roof and windows that leak, damaging its famous murals. The 70-foot Indian Watchtower at ...