In June 2024, I visited this canyon and it was probably the clearest skies and calmest winds I’ve experienced there. I grew up a short distance from here, and this picture will always remind me of home. This is probably my favorite place to shoot the night sky. A year after I took this shot, both rims of this canyon were under assault by a massive wildfire which closed the park. The south rim took the brunt with the fire lasting 70 days and consuming over 4200 acres. It will recover, but not in my lifetime.