Last updated: September 16, 2021
Place
Grand Canyon Conservancy
NPS/Joel Kane
Quick Facts
Location:
South Rim Village
Designation:
National Historic Landmark
OPEN TO PUBLIC:
No
This is an office building, and it is not open to the public. This building was constructed in 1931 as the first hospital for Grand Canyon Village. The buidling now serves as the offices for Grand Canyon Conservancy.
Grand Canyon Conservancy (GCC) is the official nonprofit partner of Grand Canyon National Park, funding projects not covered by federal money. The realization of preserving trails and historic buildings, delivering educational programs for the public, conducting scientific research, and protecting wildlife and their natural habitat has been cultivated, in part, through GCC's memberships, publications, educational outreach, park stores, philanthropic efforts, and a field institute featuring guided natural and cultural history programs.
Your purchases at each GCC Park Store will support these and many other initiatives in Grand Canyon. A GCC membership provides you with a 15% discount on all purchases at any of GCC bookstores in the park. In addition, your membership may allow for separate discounts at other park cooperating associations and stores on separate federal public lands.
Grand Canyon Conservancy (GCC) Stores
GCC operates multiple Park Stores in the park:
Grand Canyon Conservancy Park Store
Yavapai Geology Museum
Verkamp's Visitor Center
Kolb Studio
Tusayan Museum and Ruin
Desert View Watchtower
North Rim Visitor Center
Grand Canyon Field Institute
The Grand Canyon Conservancy Field Institute helps visitors experience Grand Canyon like never before. Through classes, guided hiking trips, and educational tours you will learn about the geology and cultural and natural history of this magnificent place from those who know it best-geologists, historians, ecologists, archaeologists, and other experts.
History
In 1932, park ranger naturalist Edwin "Eddie" McKee founded the Grand Canyon Natural History Association. As a park ranger working on the South Rim, McKee saw the need for a partnership to support interpretive programs, publications, and efforts to preserve the canyon. From its beginning, the natural history association did just that, funding interpretive talks, research, and scientific papers. It continues to do so today as the Grand Canyon Conservancy.
Today, GCC still serves its founding mission, and much more. Membership, general-audience publications, educational outreach, a field institute, and philanthropy programs were added over the years to serve the Conservancy's mission of cultivating support, education, and understanding of Grand Canyon.