The National Park is really cool but with the Hoover Dam makes for a really long day 4hrs to the park and 4 hrs back. The advantage is that you can hike down into the canyon a few miles to get a much better feel of the scale of it. Hiking about an Hour down into the Canyon is really neat.
The tour of inside the Hoover Dam is worth it if you like the Enginnerrimg feats type stuff as is running across the new bridge and looking down on the Hoover damn. You need to book tours in advance
So if you leave at 6am spend 2-3 hours at the damn (need to check hours and first tour times) get to the Grand Canyon (National Park) at 1, Hike down in the canyon for 2-3 hours, Then go to the various rim viewpoints, stay until sunset than drive back getting back to the Hotel around midnight makes for a fantastic but exhausting day.
I think skywalks in general are gimmicks so haven't ever done the Grand Canyon one but it is significantly closer than the national park.
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