Tanner Trail

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The Tanner Trail is a hiking trail in Grand Canyon National Park, located in the U.S. state of Arizona.

The trailhead for the Tanner Trail is near the parking area at Lipan Point. It ends at the confluence of the Colorado River and Tanner Creek, ten miles from the trailhead. The trail makes some sharp, steep switchbacks in the upper rock layers (Kaibab Limestone and Toroweap Formation), before heading north along the ridgeline below Escalante Butte and Cardenas Butte.

At the end of the ridge, the trail descends the angular break in the Redwall Limestone. The trail heads north and crosses the Mauv Limestone, Bright Angel Shale, and Grand Canyon Supergroup layers before reaching the Colorado River at Tanner Rapids. The rapids also marks the eastern terminus of the Escalante Route (which connects to the Tonto Trail and Red Canyon Trail at Hance Rapids), and the southern terminus of the Beamer Trail (which continues north to the confluence of the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River).

The trail is categorized as a primitive trail and receives little maintenance by trail crews and very few patrols by park rangers. There are areas where social trailing and animal trails make route finding difficult, so care is required when hiking the Tanner Trail.