And for all-day snacks, there will be charcuterie, butter, bread, and some other smaller dishes. During breakfast hours, Golden will serve up pastries and baked goods like cakes, tarts, and both sweet and savory eclairs, as well as coffee made with beans from Houston’s Amaya Roasting Co. Expect raw bar items like hamachi crudo, Alabama oysters, and Gulf squid as well as blood sausages, macaroni gratin, pastillas (North African meat or seafood pies), and lots of vegetables. Owner and chef Barclay Stratton is expecting to have a list of 80 to 90 options sourced internationally, with the aim to carry “playful, funky stuff,” and also be able to introduce people to these types of wines, as he explains to Eater over email.įor dinner, the menu will make use of local, quality, and seasonal ingredients. Golden’s wine menu will focus on serving and selling natural and low-intervention wines. He had been working on his idea since 2018. “I wanted to open a European-style cafe/wine bar focusing on the low-intervention/natural wines I’ve experienced with food that I know and love,” he tells Eater over email. Owner and chef Barclay Stratton was in search of something in South Austin that offered good coffee, wine, and food since that’s where he lives, rather than travel across the river. Golden Hour will open at 7731 Menchaca Road, Suite 100 sometime this late summer. It is 26 miles (42 km) from Grand Canyon Village to Desert View and takes about one hour of driving time.A new wine cafe and bottle store is opening in South Austin this year. (During winter months, December through February, Hermit Road is open to all vehicles, but may be temporarily closed due to snow.)įor points along Desert View Drive (Highway 64) heading east towards Desert View including Grandview, Moran, Lipan, Navajo, and Desert View Points you must drive your car, or take a motorcoach tour. Catch the Hermit Road Shuttle at the Village Route/Hermit Route Transfer stop. Access to Hermit Road is by shuttle bus only from March 1 to November 30, or you can take a motorcoach tour. Hermit Road (Red Route) offers outstanding scenic views along a 7.5 mile (12 km) road, and includes Maricopa, Powell, Hopi, Mohave and Pima points. This is the fastest way get from the Visitor Center out to canyon views. Kaibab Rim (Orange Route) provides service from the Visitor Center to Yavapai Point and geology museum, the South Kaibab Trailhead, and Yaki Point. It's free, convenient, and the drivers never get lost! Shuttle buses run from approximately one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset, and even later on the Village Loop (Blue Route.) Park your vehicle and ride the free shuttle buses. Grand Canyon has now become one of the most complex, highly-visited, pristine night-sky sanctuaries on the planet.Ī good way to get from Grand Canyon Village out to the viewpoints is to use the park's shuttle bus system. In June, 2019, Grand Canyon National Parks was awarded full International Dark Sky Status. A gap of less than 30 seconds between the flash of lightning and the rumble of thunder indicates that it is time to retreat to shelter. An exposed, rocky point is not where you want to be during a thunderstorm. Thunderstorms are common in July, August, and early September. John Wesley Powell described clouds playing in the canyon as if they were "the children of the heavens." Storm clouds may break to reveal a sunlight flooded sky or perhaps a rainbow. Early geologist Clarence Dutton observed that at sunset "the colossal buttes expand in every dimension." How do you visualize the changes of daybreak or sunset?Ĭhanges in the position of the sun and variations in the sky transform colors, shadows, and shapes in the canyon. Air quality, clouds, time of the day,and season will all contribute to your view. Predicting the quality of a sunset at Grand Canyon is as uncertain as predicting the weather.
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