View from The Top: Coolest Helicopter Tours
| December 4, 2017
Grand Canyon – Arizona
The thing about the Grand Canyon is, well, it’s enormous. It’s nearly 277 miles long and 18 miles wide. You can stand on the edge of the canyon and look outwards or you can opt to hike inside the canyon itself, but if you’re hoping to see the whole thing and still make your dinner reservations on time, you’ll want to book yourself a seat in a helicopter.
Thanks to Papillon, you can fly over the Painted Desert, watch the winding Colorado River, and take in roughly 70 million years of geological history from a freaking helicopter! Need we say more?
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