Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona National Park Service, Denver Service Center Approximately five million people visit Grand Canyon National Park every year. Meeting visitor needs requires new infrastructure and facilities within some of the most significant New Deal-era designed landscapes in the national park system. The National Park Service engaged JMA, in association with Westlake Reed Leskosky Architects and Woolpert LLP, to take the lead role in undertaking cultural landscape studies for five historic areas that are experiencing major changes to address current and future operational requirements. These landscapes included an inner-canyon campground established in 1913; a 1920s-era rim-side park road; two villages situated on the north and south rims of the canyon; and a rim-edge gateway overlook built in the 1930s. Each project included identification of landscape features that defined the historic character of each site; a comparison of historic landscape conditions to current conditions to determine landscape change over time; and preparation of treatment and design guidelines and recommendations for alterations and additions to the landscape and preservation of each site’s historic characteristics. Important aspects of the studies included historic vegetation management, universal accessibility, siting of new facilities, and identification of compatible new construction materials. JMA Staff: Krista L. Schneider, Adriane D. Fowler, Jacqueline S. Taylor To Top