Event Details (U.S. National Park Service)

Fee:

Free.

Location: LAT/LONG: 36.059095, -112.108899

From the South Entrance Station, continue following the road you are on for 5 miles, and it will lead you to the Visitor Center. Just before the parking areas, the road curves to the left. You can park your vehicle in one of four parking areas and find your way to the Visitor Center, in the center of the open plaza where restroom buildings, the park store, and the bicycle rental are also located. View the map below.

Dates & Times

Date:

Friday, April 25, 2025

Time:

7:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour and 30 minutes

Type of Event

Campfire/Evening Program

Talk

Description

7:00 pm - Visitor Center Theater - Special Evening Program (allow 90 minutes)

A Walk in the Park: An Evening with Kevin Fedarko

New York Times bestselling author Kevin Fedarko will be sharing stories from his newest book, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon. Copies of the book will be for sale at GCC's bookstore. This is your chance to get your very own signed copy! This event is free and open to the public.

About the Book

From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, A Walk in the Park is a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. The tale narrates the odyssey Fedarko and his best friend Pete McBride undertook to transecta the entire length of the Grand Canyon, a feat billed by the handful of experts who have managed to complete it as “the toughest hike in the world.”

About the Author

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, as well as a senior editor at Outside, where he covered outdoor adventure. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications, and a trio of his adventure stories from the Himalayas, the Horn of Africa, and the Colorado River are anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing. Fedarko’s first book, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon, won the National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona.