119 Best Grand Canyon Instagram Captions (Puns, Quotes & More)

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As one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon’s beauty is simply indescribable.

Carved by the Colorado River, the mile-deep canyon is 277 miles long, and an average of 10 miles across.

There’s just so much for your eyes to take in!

It’s only fitting that you’ll need the perfect Grand Canyon caption to pair with your stunning photos.

In this post, I’ve put together all of the best Grand Canyon quotes, puns, and catchy sayings to give you inspiration.

Let’s dive in.

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Best Grand Canyon Captions

1. Meet me at the Grand Canyon.

2. Everything the light touches.

3. Colors from the heavens.

4. Grand Canyon days and desert nights.

5. Sunsets are just better at the Grand Canyon.

6. Any day in the Grand Canyon is a good day.

7. Live, love, and explore the Grand Canyon.

8. Greetings from the Grand Canyon State.

9. Relationship status: in love with Grand Canyon sunsets.

10. Follow me to the Grand Canyon.

11. Nice to meet you, Grand Canyon.

12. The Grand Canyon is calling, and I must go.

13. Giving up wifi and grabbing my backpack.

14. Gone To The Grand Canyon.

15. Are we at the Grand Canyon yet?

16. Feeling the call of the wild in the Grand Canyon.

17. You had me at Grand Canyon.

18. Not leaving anything behind at the Grand Canyon but my heart.

19. Living that Grand Canyon life.

20. A day spent exploring the Grand Canyon is the best kind of therapy.

21. Seeing the Grand Canyon for yourself? Priceless.

22. Earth’s Mighty Crack.

23. I’d rather be at the Grand Canyon.

24. Soaking in the promise of the Grand Canyon.

25. We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.

Cute Grand Canyon Captions

26. Grand Canyon Dreaming.

27. A bad day at the Grand Canyon is better than a good day anywhere else.

28. “Dear Grand Canyon, you have my heart.”

29. Mother Nature’s work of art.

30. Wanderlust and canyon dust.

31. “Find me at the Grand Canyon.

32. Grand Canyon vibes.

33. “Let nature cleanse your soul.”

34. Mother Nature showing her true power at the Grand Canyon.

35. Inspired by the Grand Canyon.

36. Grand Canyon is my happy place.

37. Grand Canyon Girl.

38. Dream. Explore. Discover.

39. Who needs therapy when you can visit the Grand Canyon?

40. Heaven on Earth.

41. A date with nature.

42. Always take the scenic route.

43. Checking the Grand Canyon off of my bucket list.

44. Let yourself be shaped by the flow, like the Grand Canyon, instead of drowned in it.

45. I’ve seen a view things in my life, but nothing like this.

46. BRB – exploring.

47. Long live the planet and the magic it makes.

48. Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.

49. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

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50. What’s life but one grand adventure?

51. There’s no caption grand enough to capture this view.

52. Beautiful views as far as the eye canyon see.

53. In a Grand Canyon State of mind.

54. Having a grand old time.

55. The Grand Canyon: it’ll knock your rocks off.

56. Canyon feel the love tonight?

57. I’d Mather be here.

58. This canyon is right up my valley.

59. Yes we canyon.

60. Have you camped in the Grand Canyon? It’s in-tents.

61. You’re in fine landform today.

62. There’s a lot I could say about the Grand Canyon, but it all feels too deep.

63. The Grand Canyon is just gorges.

64. Cry me a Colorado River.

65. I canyon-ly imagine.

66. I can’t help feeling sedimental looking at these views.

67. Flying over the Grand Canyon is a heli of a lot of fun.

68. I could tell you all about the Grand Canyon… but I’ll just give you the cliff notes.

69. Never gonna take the Grand Canyon for granite.

70. Just living life on the edge.

71. The Grand Canyon opens up before your very rise.

72. I’m rocking my brains for the last time I saw something this beautiful.

73. Canyon dig it?

74. The Grand Canyon sure erode to the occasion.

75. Hiking is all the range.

76. Leaving the Grand Canyon has me feeling vista-full.

77. Ever since I got back from the Grand Canyon, all I’m serving is dry humor.

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Grand Canyon Quotes For Captions

78. “The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.” – John Wesley Powell

79. “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.” – Theodore Roosevelt

80. “Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon seems oceanic; at the surface of the river the feeling is intimate.”– Barry López

81. “There will never be a photograph of the Grand Canyon that can adequately describe its depth, breadth, and true beauty.” – Stefanie Payne

82. “I don’t believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.” – Nolan Gould

83. “You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.” – John Wesley Powell

84. “The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the rock; it is the book of earth.” – Donald C. Peattie

85. “The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.” – John Piper

Meaningful Grand Canyon Quotes For Captions

86. “Anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around – you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life.” – Pico Iyer

87. “The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon – forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.” – John Wesley Powell

88. “The astonishing sense of connection with that river and canyon caught me completely unaware, and in a breath I understood the intense, protective loyalty so many people feel for the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. It has to do with truth and beauty and love of this earth, the artifacts of a lifetime and the descant of a canyon wren at dawn.” – Ann Zwinger

89. “The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.” – Donald C. Peattie

90. “There’s not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.” – Stewart Udall

91. “Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” – Don Marquis

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92. “Truly, Arizona is a wonderland, and in the Grand Cañon, one can think of nothing but the Abomination of Desolation.” – John G. Bourke

93. “It doesn’t have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being – Everything is full of wonder.” – A.C. Grayling

94. “The Grand Canyon which yawns between the writer’s concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.” – Fannie Hurst

95. “I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk; I saw blue-winged teal against the green waters at dawn. I had wanted to hear thunder rolling in the thousand-foot depths; I heard the guttural caw of four ravens…what any of us had come to see or do fell away. We found ourselves at each turn with what we had not imagined.” – Barry López

96. “We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.” – John Piper

97. “The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave” – Frederick Lenz

Inspirational Grand Canyon Quotes For Captions

98. “If there is a point to being in the canyon, it is not to rush but to linger, suspended in a blue-and-amber haze of in-between-ness, for as long as one possibly can. To float, to drift, savoring the pulse of the river on its odyssey through the canyon, and above all, to postpone the unwelcome and distinctly unpleasant moment when one is forced to reemerge and reenter the world beyond the rim-that is the paramount goal.” – Kevin Fedarko

99. “It’s like trying to describe what you feel when you’re standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it’s like.” – Jack Schmitt

100. “What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one’s hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe’s creation and did not blink?” – Michael Shermer

101. “It is a spectacular illusion – a deeply three-dimensional scene flattened onto an earthly canvas.” – Stefanie Payne

102. “It’s not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.” – David Roberts

103. “Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” – Theodore Roosevelt

104. “Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful.” – Jeri Smith

105. “I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.”- John McCain

Funny Grand Canyon Quotes For Captions

106. “Where’s all the faces of the presidents?” – Andy Dwyer, Parks & Recreation

107. “Crying: acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon.” – Ron Swanson, Parks & Recreation

108. “If you’re ever thinking ‘Oh, but I’m a waste of space, I’m a burden,’ remember, that also describes the Grand Canyon.” – Maria Bamford

109. “When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.” – McKenna Shay

110. “I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it because I was certain I could fly.” – Mark Goulston

111. “Myths that need clarification: “No matter how many times you see the Grand Canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears.” False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair.” – Erma Bombeck

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112. “With what you don’t know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.” – Kevin Smith

113. “I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge – you don’t appreciate it.” – David Roberts

114. “Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.” – Edward Abbey

115. “I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.” – Henry F. Ashurst

116. “I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.” – Paul Rudnick

117. “Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact, I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.” – Barry Goldwater

118. “Mortals: meet the empty air, arias carved out of rocks beyond our puny clock philosophy.” – Thea Gavin.

119. “I would rather stumble by chance on a tiny stream in the woods than plan a trip to the Grand Canyon.” – Marty Rubin

How To Get Around The Grand Canyon

In order to reach the Grand Canyon and explore the area to its fullest, you’re going to need your own car.

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Less time researching, more time exploring right??

Where To Stay At The Grand Canyon South Rim

Grand Canyon Village is a collection of hotels, restaurants, and shops inside the park. Lodging inside the park books up pretty quickly, so make sure to plan well in advance!

Hotels Inside The Park

El Tovar
Bright Angel Lodge
Yavapai Lodge

If you don’t manage to snag a reservation inside the park, an alternative is to stay just outside the park, in the small town of Tusayan.

Hotels In Tusayan

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