Grand Canyon Skywalk - would you?

Nope, just plain nope!  And it's the glass bottom that gets to me...I walk around anything that resembles  see-through flooring.

No problem. But I wouldn't shell out money to do it. Scared: nope. Cheap: yep.

I would definitely do it. I went to the grand canyon a few years ago, we booked our mule tour 2 weeks in advance and had no problem. The web site says 6 months in advance, but I know a few people who booked just weeks in advance.
I'm always up for an adventure.

doesn't look like too big of a deal, and hey, if it fell while i was on it my kids would be set for life!

I would vomit my innerds out.

Years ago one of my sons was doing "karate" kicks and a winter boot ended up on the roof of the garage.  The wind did NOT blow it down.  So, I came home from dropping them off for swimming lessons and that boot on the roof just enraged me.  I went around the back of the garage, put up a ladder, climbed up, stomped across the roof the the FRONT of the garage, reached down, picked up the boot and suddenly realized where I was and what I'd done.  I froze.  I managed to SIT, but I sat on that roof until my yelling for help woke up DH.   He, not being terrified of heights told me to just go back the way I'd come....not happening.  So he brought the ladder around FRONT and told me to come down.  NOT happening.  He had to come up on the roof, turn me over on my belly, get behind me and SLITHER me down to the ladder.  I've gotten now to where I CAN go up and down the ladder to the motor home, but there'd better be a darn compelling reason for me to go THAT high off the ground.
 
That platform?  Ain't gonna happen!

ORIGINAL: ashland

  . . . but there is just something about this whole concept that bothers me. I don't know why, but it just bugs me that it was made.

My thoughts exactly. And no, I wouldn't do it, I wouldn't even go all the way out on the Golden Gate Bridge (on foot that is)!

Now that it's there, I'd absoultely do it, but I wish it weren't there. Edward Abbey is rolling in his unknown grave.

Yep.  I'd do it and I'd pay - I'd be out there as long as they let me.  But I've jumped from a plane at 13,500 feet.
 
I don't want to see dozens of these things go up, but....

I would not be afraid, but I have a problem with having to PAY $50 to go on a MAN-MADE structure crossing what I consider to be a NATURAL wonder.  I'd go on it if it were free, but seriously if I wanted to travel to see a man-made walkway I'd go to the Great Wall of China.

I agree there is something I do not like about it, it just seems too strange to me.
 
But, would I go on it...sure why not. Im not afraid of hieghts....usually that is.
 
I don't get why you would have to pay though? I mean I get why to pay it off but geeze at least $50 ..seems a bit pricey

(shudders) Does AZ ever get earthquakes?  They're only one state away, after all.  Can you just imagine being on that thing when one hit?
 
Joyce

You have to pay because it was pretty profoundly expensive to build and was built by the Hualapai on their lands as a means of generating income via tourism for this small and impoverished reservation.  But I've read the cost is $25 dollars - not sure where the bigger figures are coming from.

The tribe will include access to the deck in a variety of tour packages ranging from $49.95 to $199.00. They'll allow up to 120 people at a time to look down to the canyon floor more than 4,000 feet below, a vantage point more than twice as high as the world's tallest buildings.

That was taken from the article that the link was posted from.
 ersonally I would rather it not have been built. Doesn't quite fit in, would rather leave the area in it's natural state as much as possible..  Given the chance to go on it, though I would.

Dubilpie, sorry I did not notice the $ in the articles - I've seen others where the $25 figure was quoted. 
 
I do have mixed feelings about the bridge - like I said, I'd hate to see a dozen more go up, but I also understand and empathize with what the tribe is trying to do and I think the design was thoughtful and has a minimal visual impact - particulary with the scale of the Canyon.  Not all the tribe members are happy with it either for the same aesthetic and some spiritual reasons.
 
I've looked at their site and there is contact information about arranging tours, but no prices quoted.  I wonder if the scale depends on the time you spend out there or maybe some times slots are more premium (like sunset or sunrise) or even with more money you have fewer people on it with you.
 
I love and value new experiences and it would be worth it to me. All depends on your own perspective and interests, I guess.