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Caption: Marker detail: Grand Circle Tour
Additional Description: With the completion of the lodges at Zion, Bryce Canyon, and the North Rim in the 1920s, the Grand Circle tour was born.

Stephen Mather, first director of the National Park Service, and assistant Horace Albright worked closely with the Union Pacific Railroad and tour companies to promote the development of these facilities.
Submitted: December 28, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p559994
File Size: 0.463 Megabytes

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