Sandra Faber is University Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Neighboring Lancaster has increased its population since the early 1980s to around 3 times its former level. Major retail has followed the population influx, centered around Palmdale's Antelope Valley Mall. The Antelope Valley is home to over 475,000, and is expected to reach 1,000,000 people by the year 2020.
I am assuming you mean upper Antelope Canyon. Lower is less crowded, but you would be climbing down and up a ladder into and out of lower Antelope. The entrance is on route 98, about 5 miles east of 89, on the right (south) side of the road. But 89 is closed because of a road collapse earlier this year..