This shot was taken at 8:21 a.m. from near the end of the viewpoint trail and shows about 30 persons at the viewpoint. Out of view to the right were a few more visitors. If some of those people took a few steps, they'd fall about 1000 feet. The third photo of this series shows the cliff below the viewpoint.

The viewpoint is merely that---just a place at the canyon rim where one can see Horseshoe Bend. There is nothing man-made at or near the rim: no sidewalk, no steps, no platform, no signs, no markers, no shade structure, no railing, no fence, no toilets, no picnic tables, no interpretive displays. At the parking lot are several vault toilets.

A note on the image identifies the ridge or finger of land around which the Colorado River flows, forming Horseshoe Bend. The angle of the shot and the morning lighting make it difficult to tell where the viewpoint ends and that ridge begins.