As of July 22, firefighters expanded containment efforts for both of the wildfires that scorched over 70,000 acres in far northern Arizona.

“The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is like another world,” said Ethan Aumack, executive director of the Grand Canyon Trust, who has fond memories of skiing through the woods to the rim after the lone road that leads there closes for the winter. “It feels like a much more personal place.”