South Kaibab Trail Day Hike | Best Grand Canyon Hike

The best day hike at the Grand Canyon  South Kaibab offers the best views of any day hike in the Grand Canyon. It offers sweeping sites of the canyon and you’ll be in awe of the beauty the entire way down.

You can start from the visitor center and walk from there adding a couple of extra miles, take the free shuttle to the trailhead or park along Desert View Drive closer to the trailhead and walk .5 miles along the Rim Trail to the trailhead.

From there you start the steep descent down with the unique and pretty switchbacks diving into the canyon. The hike is steeper and harder than Bright Angel Trail but the extra effort is worth the views.

You will hike down into the canyon and go as far as you’d like but definitely try to at least make it the .9 miles to Ooh-Aah Point. The 1.8 mile round trip is worth it and offers some great views.

For those with more energy I definitely suggest going to Cedar Ridge as the walk down with the switchbacks in the distance is one of my favorite pictures out of any of them.

Just passed Cedar Ridge there is also a great little peninsula to take some incredible pictures and one of the best views on the hike. For those wanted to push themselves you can keep going and hike 6 miles in total by going to Skeleton Point and back.

From there the last stop is the river bed and that is 6.3 miles down. Hiking the the river is not suggested for a day hike. The rangers suggest Skeleton Point being the further you go if doing a day hike. From there you can even see the river!