UPDATE | Staff At Grand Canyon Searching For Missing Child

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Compiled From NPS Releases

Published Date

August 22, 2024

The search is on for missing child Canyon Hartley and park staff are asking for the public's help, Grand Canyon National Park / NPS poster photo

Editor's Note: This updates the status of missing Canyon Hartley as being located safe as of 9:45 a.m. in Grand Canyon Village.

Staff at Grand Canyon National Park is seeing the public’s help in locating 8-year-old Canyon Hartley. He was last seen at midnight, August 22, 2024, at site 151, Juniper Loop of Mather Campground on the South Rim.

Canyon is 4’1” tall (1.2 m tall), weighs about 60 pounds (27 kg) and has strawberry-blonde hair. He was last seen wearing a blue top, underpants, no shoes, and possibly carrying a stuffed condor.

If you think you’ve seen this boy, or have any information, please contact Grand Canyon Dispatch 928-638-7805

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