Facebook Twitter Pintrest. The Grand Hotel at the Grand Canyon is the premier hotel in the region and one of the few area hotels with an indoor swimming pool and spa. Built in 1998, our hotel is just one mile from the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, with scenic South Rim of the Canyon just a short car ride away. Plus, guests receive a complimentary South Rim Walking Tour Brochure and a coupon to use at the historic Hopi House gift shop.
The bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), Americaâs smallest turtle, is federally listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Bog turtles depend upon a habitat mosaic of open, sunny, spring fed wetlands and scattered dry areas.
Recent global estimates of nesting females of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) runs between 26,000 and 43,000. See the related Wikipedia link listed below for more information: Leatherback turtles are listed as endangered on the Species at Risk List in Canada, and are on the Endangered Species List in the United States. There are estimated to be between 34,000 and 36,000 nesting females left worldwide (compared to 115,000 nesting females in 1980).