--- title: Grand Canyon National Park: Finding Eternity in One LIFE Photograph description: LIFE.com takes a look at one photograph, made by Frank Scherschel and never published in LIFE, that manages in one frame to evoke the Grand Canyon's unfathomable size and grandeur. canonical: https://time.com/3875472/going-deep-life-at-grand-canyon-national-park/ author: Liz Ronk article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-01-11T01:21:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:54.130Z og:title: Grand Canyon National Park: Finding Eternity in One LIFE Photograph og:description: LIFE.com takes a look at one photograph, made by Frank Scherschel and never published in LIFE, that manages in one frame to evoke the Grand Canyon's unfathomable size and grandeur. og:url: https://time.com/3875472/going-deep-life-at-grand-canyon-national-park/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4239c7d05c51c0a2/698849012dce014f549e2f2c/01_00523471.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Grand Canyon 1947 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Grand Canyon National Park: Finding Eternity in One LIFE Photograph twitter:description: LIFE.com takes a look at one photograph, made by Frank Scherschel and never published in LIFE, that manages in one frame to evoke the Grand Canyon's unfathomable size and grandeur. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4239c7d05c51c0a2/698849012dce014f549e2f2c/01_00523471.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Going Deep: LIFE at Grand Canyon National Park > Sponsored content. 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Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) ## Liz Ronk Jan 11, 2013 1:21 AM UTC A few years ago, public television in the United States aired a marvelous, six-episode Ken Burns documentary called _The National Parks: America’s Best Idea_. The doc didn’t get as much media attention — or draw as many viewers — as some of Burns’ other enormously popular endeavors (_The Civil War_, _Baseball_, _The War_) but it was still an entertaining and, not surprisingly, highly informative take on the creation and evolution of America’s spectacular national parks system. Perhaps the most notable achievement of the entire project, however, is that with three words, the title of the series managed to articulate a fundamental, unassailable truth: the parks system really _is_ “America’s best idea.” After all, while America is known as the birthplace of countless innovations, it didn’t invent, say, democracy, so there’s no laying claim to that. And while Americans surely invented jazz and baseball — and, even more importantly, rotisserie baseball — those are not really ideas, per se. The parks system, on the other hand, grew out of a wholly American idea — a national philosophy — summed up quite perfectly by a national treasure of another sort, the one and only Woody Guthrie: _This land is your land, this land is my land_ … [**\[See the gallery of photos from 1943, “LIFE With Woody Guthrie: Photos of an American Treasure.”\]**](http://life.time.com/culture/woody-guthrie-in-new-york-city-photos-1943/#1) Of all the national parks, the one that most immediately and enduringly commands awe is, of course, Grand Canyon. As LIFE wrote in a feature story on the canyon in its Sept. 8, 1947, issue: --- > “” --- Here, on the anniversary of the day that Teddy Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon area a national monument — January 11, 1908 — LIFE.com takes a long look at one photograph, made by Frank Scherschel, that manages in one frame to evoke the entire region’s unfathomable size and raw grandeur. (Note: While Roosevelt named it a national monument as early as 1908, the Grand Canyon region was not reclassified as a national park for another 11 long years, with commercial interests — mining, mineral and timber companies, for example — lining up to block reclassification efforts for more than a decade. An Act of Congress establishing Grand Canyon National Park was finally signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson in February 1919.) For his own part, Roosevelt said of the more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon area that he had set aside: “Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is. You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you.” Amen to that, Teddy. Amen to that.  An aerial view, not originally published in LIFE, of Grand Canyon National Park, 1947\. NOTE: This image is best viewed in "Full Screen" mode. See button at right. 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