Plan for a full day: Between the train ride and Grand Canyon exploration, the journey takes just under eight hours. The train ride is 4½ hours round trip, and riders have three hours to see the ...

Try North America’s best travel bargain—the Copper Canyon train ride. For $9 you can see Indians who run down deer on foot, Mennonites who speak German, and the most spectacular scenery in Mexico.

Seeing a piece of the world from a train can offer glimpses of scenic landscapes not easily accessible beyond the tracks. Such a sentiment explains the appeal of the Grand Canyon Railway, a ...