Throwback Thursday

The first automobile to make the drive to the Grand Canyon began its journey on January 4, 1902. Anticipating that the 60-mile drive would take only four hours, Oliver Lippincott, along with a guide and two writers from Los Angeles, left Flagstaff without any extra food or water. Unfortunately their Toledo Steamer, a 10-horse power engine built by the Toledo Automobile Company, really wasn’t ready for the rough drive as they traveled cross-country without roads, and broke down several times. Two days later, the hungry and dehydrated party finally arrived at their destination at the Grandview Hotel on the South Rim. Three years later a three-day drive from Utah was required to reach the North Rim for the first time.




Jeff
Hiking in the Smokies