How Far Is the Grand Canyon From Las Vegas?

The closest rim to Las Vegas that we checked is Grand Canyon West, 122 miles away and about 2 hours 15 minutes by road, says the National Park Service (NPS). The South Rim is 278 miles by the NPS count, and the North Rim is 275 miles. We read the NPS, Grand Canyon West and Hoover Dam pages on 14 October 2026.

The three rims, side by side

The NPS does not give a drive time from Las Vegas to the South Rim or the North Rim, so we do not give one. For the South Rim, the NPS says the drive from Williams to the South Entrance takes about 60 minutes (NPS directions page, updated 13 Dec 2025, read 14 Oct 2026). Check your map app for the rest of the drive.

West Rim: Grand Canyon West and the Skywalk

Grand Canyon West is on the Hualapai Reservation. Its website says the Hualapai Tribe owns and runs it, and the NPS says the Skywalk is outside Grand Canyon National Park. The NPS Skywalk page is dated 8 August 2019, so check the road before you leave.

Getting there: Driving: 122 miles and about 2 hours 15 minutes from the center of Las Vegas. Drive south on US-93 through Boulder City, go about 45 miles to Pierce Ferry Road in Mohave County and turn left. After 28 miles, turn right onto Diamond Bar Road, which merges into Buck and Doe Road to reach Grand Canyon West (NPS, Skywalk page, last updated 8 Aug 2019, read 14 Oct 2026). Grand Canyon West calls it a "two hour drive" and gives the address as 5001 E. Diamond Bar Road, Meadview, AZ 86444 (Grand Canyon West, plan your visit page, read 14 Oct 2026)

Hours: Open every day of the year. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. Last entry ticket is sold at 4:30 p.m. and the park closes at 6:00 p.m. In summer the last entry is 5:30 p.m. and closing is 7:00 p.m. The hours are in Arizona time. The page says that is Pacific Daylight Time from 8 March to 1 November 2026 and Mountain Standard Time from 2 November 2026 to 13 March 2027. By our reading, from 2 November Arizona is one hour ahead of Las Vegas (Grand Canyon West, plan your visit page, read 14 Oct 2026)

Price: All-Access Pass $99. It includes the Skywalk, the zipline, Hualapai guided tours and exhibits, song and dance performances, shuttles and walking trails. General Admission $67, and the page says it does not include the Skywalk. Sunset Pass $59, which gives entry after 3:00 p.m., Skywalk admission, and access to Eagle Point and Guano Point. Helicopter Pontoon Package $418 a person, which includes the All-Access Pass. No Skywalk-only ticket is listed. The page does not say if tax or fees are extra (Grand Canyon West, tickets and deals page, read 14 Oct 2026, page undated)

Note: Skywalk rules from the official Skywalk page: store bags in the free lockers, because purses and backpacks are not allowed on the Skywalk. You must wear shoes, and you put booties over them to protect the glass. Peak crowds are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The page says to come early. Offsite parking has free hop-on, hop-off shuttles to the Skywalk (Grand Canyon West, Skywalk page, read 14 Oct 2026). We did not find a camera rule on that page

We did not check whether a national park pass works at Grand Canyon West. The page does not say.

South Rim: Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon National Park

Getting there: 278 miles from Las Vegas. Take US-93 south to Kingman, AZ. From Kingman take I-40 east to Williams, AZ. From Williams take AZ-64 north to the South Rim (NPS, South Rim directions page, last updated 12 Sep 2026, read 14 Oct 2026)

The same NPS page gives these other distances to the South Rim: 231 miles from Phoenix, 81 miles from Flagstaff and 63 miles from Williams.

Once you are there, the South Rim guide on this site covers the free shuttle buses, the entrance fee and winter conditions. The NPS fee is $35 for a private vehicle and $20 a person on foot or bike, each valid for 7 days. Non-US residents aged 16 and over pay an extra $100 each, unless they hold an Annual or America the Beautiful pass. The park does not take cash (NPS fees page, updated 20 Jul 2026, read 14 Oct 2026).

Without a car

We did not find a Las Vegas to South Rim bus or train with a price we could confirm. Amtrak does not reach the canyon, and the guide linked above explains the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams and the Groome shuttles from Flagstaff. Both start in Arizona, so you would first need to get from Las Vegas to Flagstaff or Williams. We did not check that leg.

North Rim: what the NPS says now

Getting there: 275 miles from Las Vegas. Drive north on I-15 for 128 miles, just past St. George, UT, to Route 9. Go east on Route 9 for 10 miles to Route 59, east on Route 59 for 32 miles, and east on Route 389 for 33 miles to US-89A. Continue on US-89A for 30 miles to Route 67, then south on Route 67 for 43 miles to the North Rim. The page gives no drive time from Las Vegas (NPS, North Rim directions page, last updated 10 Jul 2026, read 14 Oct 2026). The NPS FAQ page says "263 miles one-way" from Las Vegas in its North Rim paragraph (NPS, FAQ page, last updated 13 Dec 2025, read 14 Oct 2026). The two NPS North Rim figures differ, and we do not know why

Note: The NPS North Rim status page (last updated 6 Oct 2026) says the season is open through 30 November 2026 or the first major snowstorm, with a focus on day use. Overnight lodging is not available on the North Rim in 2026, and lodging is available outside the park. The North Rim Campground closed for the season on the morning of 16 October 2026 (NPS news release, 30 September 2026). The gas station closed for the season on 19 September. Fuel is at Jacob Lake and the North Rim Country Store. The General Store closed for the season on 15 October. The Cape Royal and Point Imperial roads are closed from sunset 15 October to sunrise 3 November 2026 for road repair. The North Kaibab Trail from the trailhead to Phantom Ranch has been closed since 29 August after flash flooding, with no estimated reopening date. Phantom Ranch, Bright Angel Campground and the Black and Silver Bridges are also closed (NPS, North Rim status page, read 14 Oct 2026). On 3 September 2026 the NPS also closed the South Kaibab Trail below the Tip-Off and the Bright Angel Trail below the Tonto Trail junction, with no estimated reopening (NPS news release, 3 September 2026, read 15 Oct 2026)

The NPS says the Dragon Bravo Fire started on 4 July 2025 from a lightning strike. It says the fire destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, the North Rim Visitor Center and many historic cabins. The General Store, the campground and the gas station survived. The NPS expects services to return gradually in 2027 and 2028 and later. Older tour and hotel pages may still list North Rim rooms, so trust the NPS page.

The NPS directions page also says the North Rim and State Route 67 close to all vehicles from 1 December through 14 May. That matches what the South Rim guide on this site says. The North Rim is a long drive from the South Rim, about 212 miles and 4.5 hours on the NPS North Rim directions page. The NPS FAQ says 220 miles and five hours.

Hoover Dam on the way

Hoover Dam is run by the Bureau of Reclamation, not the NPS. Recreation.gov, a federal booking site, says the dam is 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas on US-93 (read 14 Oct 2026). That is the same road you take to Grand Canyon West and toward Kingman for the South Rim. The Bureau's own page does not give a distance.

Hours: Dam access is open daily from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Visitor Center and tours are open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Doors close at 4:15 p.m. and the last tour departs at 4:10 p.m. The page gives the times as PST (Bureau of Reclamation, Hoover Dam tour information page, last updated 29 Jul 2026, read 14 Oct 2026)

Price: Guided Dam Tour $40, children 3 and under free, sold on site only, first come, first served. Guided Power Plant Tour adults $25, ages 4 to 16 $15. Self-guided Visitor Center tour $15. Parking: $10 a vehicle in the Nevada garage and in Arizona Lot 9, and free in Arizona Lots 13 and 14. America the Beautiful and other interagency passes are not accepted for the Visitor Center or guided tours. Tours may be cancelled without notice, with refunds (same page)

The page says drones, firearms, explosives, fireworks and marijuana are not allowed, and that you must be over 16 to tour on your own.

Which rim should you choose?

Choose Grand Canyon West if you want the shortest drive and the Skywalk. Choose the South Rim if you want the national park, its free shuttles and the most services. Choose the North Rim only after you read the NPS status page, because the lodge is gone and the North Kaibab Trail is closed. This is our advice, based on the distances and closures above.

If you have one day, Grand Canyon West is the shortest of the three by the NPS distances. A round trip to the South Rim would be about 556 miles on the NPS figure. We did not find an official page that recommends a day trip to any rim.

What we checked and what can change

Read on 14 October 2026: the NPS pages for general directions, South Rim directions, North Rim directions, North Rim status, fees, the Skywalk and the FAQ, Grand Canyon West's plan your visit page, Skywalk page and tickets and deals page, the Bureau of Reclamation's Hoover Dam tour information page, and the Recreation.gov Hoover Dam page.

Not confirmed: any drive time from Las Vegas to the South Rim or North Rim, the reason the NPS gives both 263 and 275 miles for the North Rim, whether tax is added to Grand Canyon West tickets, whether a national park pass works at Grand Canyon West, any bus or tour price to the South Rim, helicopter prices apart from the $418 package, and current road works on the Diamond Bar route. The NPS Skywalk page is from 2019. Prices, hours and closures change, and the North Rim closures above run to dates in the coming weeks. We did not visit the Grand Canyon for this page.