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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 49: Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim History - Part 4 - Aiken Family
Description: By Davy Crockett
Part 4 of the Rim-to-Rim History Series. See also Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
New Book!
For anyone hiking or running rim-to-rim, most people will usually stop at a location about a mile below Roaring Springs that today is called the Manzanita Rest area, named after a creek coming down a small nearby side canyon. But the name and the rest area are a fairly new, a 2015 creation. Newer visitors have no idea that there is a rich history that took place at that location from 1973-2005.
For veteran rim-to-rim hikers and runners, they still call this place fondly, “The...