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101+ Grand Canyon Captions, Quotes, Puns and Jokes for Instagram (+ Hashtags)

Visiting the Grand Canyon in Arizona? The Grand Canyon is one of the most well known natural wonders in the world, created by the Colorado River over millions of years.

I wasn’t sure how to describe its beauty, so I created a collection of the best Grand Canyon captions and Grand Canyon quotes for Instagram that you can find below.

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Tusayan (best place to stay close to Grand Canyon)
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Flagstaff (great for Route 66 and Grand Canyon)
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Kayenta (close to Monument Valley in Utah)

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Upper Antelope Canyon tour (the one with the beam of light)
Lower Antelope Canyon tour (like a windows screen saver)
Horseshoe Bend Helicopter tour (top-selling tour)
Horseshoe bend trail ride (top-selling tour)
Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend (two must-visit places in Page)
From Sedona: Grand Canyon (perfect day trip!)
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Inside this post, you’ll find funny Grand Canyon captions and Grand Canyon puns. I’ve also included quotes about the Grand Canyon and Grand Canyon jokes to match your unforgettable moments in Arizona!

These are meant to match your photos when standing on the Skywalk at Grand Canyon West, watching the sunrise from the South Rim, hiking the Bright Angel Trail, visiting the North Rim or admiring it after booking a helicopter flight over Grand Canyon.

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Grand Canyon should be a non-negotiable stop on your Southwest itinerary. It can be the West Rim, a half-day at the South Rim, or the North Rim.

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Have a look and find your favorite Instagram captions for Grand Canyon.

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Captions for Grand Canyon


Best Grand Canyon captions for Instagram, Grand Canyon quotes. Match your photos of this US National park, when doing a Southwest road trip and Arizona travel.
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● Find best Grand Canyon Instagram captions, Grand Canyon IG captions, funny puns, jokes and riddles that perfectly describe breathtaking views of famous national park in Arizona, United States.

● Wanderlust photo descriptions are suitable for various types of Instagram posts, from stories to reels, taken when traveling to Grand Canyon South rim, North Rim or when on Skywalk on West Rim.

● The captions encourage Instagram engagement. Puns are meant to increase like count and riddles to increase comments under different posts.


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Best Grand Canyon captions for Instagram

⚬ Wow. Just wow.

⚬ Time stands still here.

⚬ Colors from the heavens.

⚬ Explore – Dream – Discover

⚬ I think I’m falling for this canyon.

⚬ A journey through time and space.

⚬ Lost in the beauty of the Grand Canyon.

⚬ Great views are meant to be experienced.

⚬ This place is grander than I ever could have imagined.



One word Grand Canyon captions

⚬ Dry

⚬ Hot

⚬ Wild

⚬ Vast

⚬ Epic

⚬ Grand

⚬ Silent

⚬ Stunning

⚬ Exhilarating

⚬ Picturesque

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Short Grand Canyon captions

⚬ Eye candy.

⚬ Grand view.

⚬ Breathtaking!

Gorge-ous view.

⚬ Stop! Don’t peak!

⚬ Beautiful immensity!

⚬ Earth’s mighty crack.

⚬ The view from the top.

⚬ Stunning natural wonder.

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Cute Instagram captions for Grand Canyon

⚬ Look at all that nature!

⚬ Cry me a Colorado River. 

⚬ So much beauty in one place.

⚬ And so the grand adventure begins …

⚬ Good times are Grand Canyon times.

⚬ These rocks and sand! They are rocking it!

⚬ The Grand Canyon is as spectacular as it is surprising.

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

⚬ My bucket list is getting shorter and shorter! Thanks, Grand Canyon.

⚬ Grand Canyon is so large, it’s kind of hard to believe that you’re on Earth.

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Funny Grand Canyon captions

⚬ Just living life on the edge.

⚬ We’re having a grand old time!

⚬ I see your point, Grand Canyon.

⚬ Are we at the Grand Canyon yet?

⚬ Live, love, explore the Grand Canyon.

⚬ Who needs a caption when you have this view?

⚬ Seeing the Grand Canyon for yourself? Priceless.

⚬ Ain’t no caption grand enough to capture this view.

⚬ The Grand Canyon opens up before your very rise.

⚬ If you’re feeling bad, you better change your altitude.

⚬ Aiming to be as mighty and strong as the Grand Canyon.

⚬ Because the world needed one more picture of the Grand Canyon.

⚬ Is it weird if I just stand here and stare at this view all day? Asking for a friend…

⚬ I don’t know what the greatest thing about the Grand Canyon is, but whatever it is, it’s big.

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Inspirational Grand Canyon Instagram caption

⚬ Nature’s masterpiece.

⚬ Follow me to the Canyon.

⚬ I want a little bit of Grand Canyon.

⚬ This really puts things in perspective…

⚬ Grand Canyon is like a date with nature.

⚬ The Grand Canyon, a breathtaking work of art.

⚬ Greetings from the wonderful Grand Canyon, Arizona.

⚬ If I had a penny for every time I gasped at a view, I’d be rich.

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

⚬ The glories and beauties of form, color, and sound united in the Grand Canyon.

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


Dreamy Grand Canyon Instagram captions

⚬ A view that goes on forever.

⚬ Letting nature take its course.

⚬ It’s a Grand Life. Thanks, Arizona.

⚬ Nature at its finest: the Grand Canyon.

⚬ Never-ending canvas of natural beauty.

⚬ One of the world’s most stunning landscapes.

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

⚬ The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

⚬ Here I am, still thinking about how incredible it was to stand on the edge of the Grand Canyon and see into its depths… and trying to figure out how I’ll ever top this trip!

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Beautiful captions for Grand Canyon photos

⚬ It’s like looking at another planet.

⚬ Can’t get a view like this in a hotel.

⚬ The colors in the rocks are unreal!

⚬ Is this real life? Or is this just fantasy?

⚬ I’m in love with the shape of you… Grand Canyon.

⚬ Anybody else wish they were experiencing this view?

⚬ It’s not just the size that’s impressive, it’s also the color.

⚬ There’s beauty in simplicity… as evidenced by the Grand Canyon.

⚬ The River, Rock and Time combine to make this magnificent landscape.

⚬ You know what they say… you haven’t lived until you’ve seen The Grand Canyon.


Skywalk captions for Instagram

⚬ Rockin it!

⚬ Living on the edge.

⚬ Nature’s work of art.

⚬ It’s called GRAND for a reason.

⚬ In a Grand Canyon state of mind.

⚬ Leaving my heart at the Grand Canyon.

⚬ The Grand Canyon: a true wonder of the world.

⚬ Everything the light touches… is Grand Canyon.

⚬ Feeling small in the presence of such grandeur.

⚬ Always take the scenic route through Grand Canyon.

⚬ If you know me, you know this was on my bucket list.

⚬ Some places leave you speechless. Grand Canyon is one of them.

⚬ Soundlessly admiring one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

⚬ The Grand Canyon is a perfect example of how mother nature can create such amazing places that even humans can’t destroy them.

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Quotes for Grand Canyon

⚬ “When your spirit cries for peace, come to a world of canyons deep in the old land.” – August Fruge

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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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 artefacts of a lifetime and the descant of a canyon wren at dawn.” – Ann Zwinger


Short Grand Canyon quotes for Instagram

⚬ “Crying. Acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon.” – Ron Swanson

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

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

⚬ “The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself.” – John Wesley Powell

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

⚬ “Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.” – George Will

⚬ “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

⚬ “The Grand Canyon is carved 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

⚬ “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

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Grand Canyon travel quotes

⚬ “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

⚬ “Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful – terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.” – Jeri Smith-Ready

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

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Beautiful quotes about the Grand Canyon

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

⚬ “It’s always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.” — Nancy Gibbs

⚬ “Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, ‘No.” – Douglas Brinkley

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

⚬ “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

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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

⚬ “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


Longer quotes about Grand Canyon

⚬ “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

⚬ “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

⚬ “The Grand Canyon is really a motion picture. There is the Grand Canyon of the early morning when the light slants lengthwise from the Painted Desert. The great capes of the northern rim shoot into the picture, outlined in golden light against which their shapes gloom in hazy blues. Certain temples seem to rise slowly from the depths or to step forward from hiding places in the opposite walls. Down on the green floor, the twisting inner gorge discloses here and their lengths of gleaming water, sunlit and yellow. An hour later all is wholly changed. The dark capes have retired somewhat and now are brilliant-hued and thoroughly defined. The temples of the dawn have become remodeled, and scores of others have emerged from the purple gloom. And just after sunset, the reds deepen to dim purples and the grays and yellows and greens change to magical blues. In the dark of a moonless night, the canyon suggests unimaginable mysteries.” – National Park Service Journals

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Grand Canyon sayings

⚬ “I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.” – Bill Walton

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

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

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

⚬ “If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there’s history within those layers.” – Leonardo Drew

⚬ “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

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

⚬ “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


Funny Grand Canyon puns

Desert first!

Canyon dig it?

⚬ Yes, we canyon.

⚬ I canyon-ly imagine.

Erode to the occasion.

⚬ You’re in fine landform today.

⚬ This canyon is right up my valley.

⚬ In need of an altitude adjustment.

⚬ What’s life but one grand adventure?

⚬ Just canyon’t get enough of this place.

⚬ I get all sedimental at the Grand Canyon.

⚬ This view is gorge-ous! You can’t deny that.

⚬ These views are beautiful as far as the eye canyon see.

⚬ The Grand Canyon is so beautiful or should I say gorge-ous!

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Puns for Grand Canyon

⚬ Yes we canyon.

Canyon believe it?

⚬ You’re one in Ver-milion.

Canyon feel the love tonight?

⚬ The Grand Canyon is just gorges.

⚬ You canyon-ly imagine how grand this is.

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

⚬ Seeing the Grand Canyon for yourself? Priceless.

⚬ The Grand Canyon opens up before your very rise.

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

⚬ These views are beautiful as far as the eye canyon see.

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

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

⚬ Don’t tell me too much about the Grand Canyon — I just want the cliff notes.


Riddles & Jokes for Grand Canyon captions

Grand Canyon jokes

⚬ Grand Canyon or Mars? I’ll let you decide.

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

⚬ What do you call a lazy hiker at the Grand Canyon? A rock sitter.

⚬ What’s the Grand Canyon’s favorite genre of music? Rock and roll.

⚬ Why don’t comedians perform at the Grand Canyon? The jokes always fall flat.

⚬ What does the Pope say when the Grand Canyon starts to flash flood? God, dam it.

⚬ Why did the couple break up during their Grand Canyon hike? Too many rocky issues.

⚬ What do tourists and the Colorado River have in common? They both run through the Grand Canyon.

⚬ How do you make a Grand Canyon? Just give a river a few million years and tell it to “go with the flow.”

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Riddles for Grand Canyon

⚬ From my edge, the views are vast,
Where sun and stone in colors contrast.
Hikers trek along my side,
In the Grand Canyon, I reside. What am I?
Answer: Grand Canyon South Rim

⚬ I’m carved by a river, mile-deep and wide,
a natural wonder, with cliffs on each side.
Tourists gaze from my towering rim,
what canyon am I?
Answer: Grand Canyon

⚬ I’m made of rock, both old and new,
Layer upon layer, I’ve come into view.
Time and weather shaped my form,
What am I, both calm and warm?
Answer: Grand Canyon layers

⚬ I carve through canyons, deep and grand,
bringing life to the desert land.
Through Horseshoe Bend, my waters flow,
what river am I? Do you know?
Answer: Colorado river

⚬ I rise above the canyon floor,
a stone tower, I watch and soar.
From me, you’ll see both north and south,
a view that will take your breath right out. What am I?
Answer: Desert View Watchtower

⚬ Deep in the canyon, where few have gone,
I flow in turquoise beneath the sun.
With waters that tumble and fall from high,
what am I, beneath the blue sky?
Answer: Havasupai Falls

⚬ I’m a place where many stop,
to gaze at cliffs that never drop.
Sunrise and sunset, I shine so bright,
what is my name, full of light?
Answer: Hopi Point

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Grand Canyon hashtags for Instagram

When choosing hashtags for Grand Canyon, it’s important to consider a mix of popular and niche hashtags to target a diverse audience and increase the reach of your posts and reels.

Here are three groups of popular hashtags for Grand Canyon captions based on usage and photo attachment:

  1. Grand Canyon hashtags with most photos attached
    #arizona #az #grandcanyon #grandcanyonarizona
    #grandcanyonaz #southrimgrandcanyon #westrimgrandcanyon
    #northrimgrandcanyon #grandcanyonnationalpark #visitgrandcanyon
  1. Moderately used hashtags related to Grand Canyon
    #matherpoint #canyonoverlook #canyonlands #grandcanyonvistas
    #yavapaiviewpoint #grandcanyonwatchtower #sunsetpointgrandcanyon
    #hopipoint #brightangestrail #nationalpark
  1. Niche Grand Canyon hashtags with the least photos attached
    #westrimskywalk #grandcanyonsunset #havasufalls #navajoland
    #aerialcanyonviews #flyingovergrandcanyon #grandcanyonusa
    #arizonaroadtrip #coloradoriver #lipanpoint

Don’t forget to monitor the performance of these tags over time and adjust your hashtag strategy accordingly.

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Final thoughts on Grand Canyon captions for Instagram

You made it all the way to the end of this fascinating Grand Canyon captions for Instagram collection blog post.

Which captions did you like the most? Cute and sweet Grand Canyon captions or funny Grand Canyon puns? Maybe there was a quote about Grand Canyon that inspired you?

How about Grand Canyon quotes for Instagram and hilarious Grand Canyon jokes?

Thinking about how you can use those can you use these captions for the Grand Canyon on your Instagram?

Use short captions on Instagram stories.

From this list of Grand Canyon captions, my favorites are jokes and puns. They are perfect to put on Instagram stories or Reels and matched with an engagement sticker and match with photos of West Rim, South Rim or North Rim.

Grand Canyon quotations are better to put under your stunning Grand Canyon photo. They are great as a voice-over on Reels or as a short video, showcasing colorful landscape at this USA national park.

Options on how to use those are unlimited.

Find more Instagram caption ideas or get inspired by other Arizona travel guides.

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Anja is a travel blogger and the founder of Anja on Adventure travel blog. Originally from Slovenia, she was also living in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Fiji. She loves traveling to tropical destinations, as well as beach destinations with endless summer. But you can also find her eating her way through Italy or Mexico, learning about ancient cultures in Easter Island, visiting bucket list places in Peru, or taking road trips through the USA. She is passionate about world cultures, travel, maps, and puzzles. For the past 15+ years she has been traveling the globe, as a solo traveler, and as a tour guide. Her goal is to visit every tropical destination in the World. Anja On Adventure is here to provide helpful travel guides and personalized itinerary ideas to travelers that she has gathered from first-hand experience.