Located on the South Rim, the Desert View Watchtower is located about 23 miles east of Grand Canyon Village via Desert View Drive (close to the park's east entrance). Designed in 1932 by renowned ...

Perched along the canyon's rim, the centerpiece of Desert View is the Desert View Watchtower, architect Mary Colter's 1932 building that incorporated design elements of the Ancestral Puebloan ...

but suggest it may have served as a tomb or a watchtower to safeguard important trade routes. “The archaeological survey of the Judean Desert is one of the most significant operations in the ...