Backcountry Management Plan

Grand Canyon National Park has started work on a Backcountry Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement. The park's existing Backcountry Management Plan was completed in 1988 and needs to be updated to comply with current National Park Service laws and policies and the park's 1995 General Management Plan.

Development of a revised plan provides an opportunity to look at alternative management strategies for protecting park resources and values while providing for a variety of visitor experiences within the backcountry. Once completed, the revised Backcountry Management Plan will guide management decisions regarding the park's backcountry and wilderness resources into the future.

Learn more about this planning effort at www.parkplanning.nps.gov/grcabmp.

If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the Backcountry Management Plan, please e-mail the planning office with your contact information.

 

Current planning documents:

• Backcountry Management Plan Summer 2012 Update (600kb pdf file)
  
• Backcountry Wilderness Map (1.2mb pdf file)
  

 

Related planning documents:

• 1988 Backcountry Management Plan
• 1995 General Management Plan
• 1998 Draft Wilderness Management Plan
• 1997 Resource Management Plan

 

Related research:

• Mule Rider and Phantom Ranch Visitor Study
• Backcountry Day Hikers at Grand Canyon National Park
• When a Landscape is Bigger than Itself: A Stakeholder Analysis of Grand Canyon's Backcountry
• Overnight Backcountry Visitors at Grand Canyon National Park
• Rapid Site Inventory of Backcountry Campsites