Swilling Butte, Grand Canyon National Park
Facts and practical information
Swilling Butte is a 6,785-foot -elevation ridgeline summit located in the eastern Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. The landform is in a group of nearby summits, Colter Butte, west, and Hutton and Duppa Buttes, east. All four buttes are at the north of the east-flowing Kwagunt Creek and Canyon drainage to the Colorado River. Swilling Butte is 3.0 miles northeast of Atoko Point, East Rim of the Walhalla Plateau, and 4.0 miles west of the -East Rim, Grand Canyon; the south-flowing Colorado River is west and adjacent to the East Rim. Swilling Butte is a triangular-platform summit of bright-red, tall Redwall Limestone. Being a cliff-former, the Redwall is also a platform-former. The upper platform of the Redwall Limestone supports a remainder-debris of the Supai Group. Of the two lower units, no. 2 is a cliff-former, hard rocks, of the Manakacha Formation; the slope-former, the Watahomigi Formation, forms most of the Supai debris upon the Redwall. Below the Redwall Limestone are members of the Cambrian Tonto Group, the Muav Limestone and the slopes of the Bright Angel Shale. ()
Grand Canyon National Park
Swilling Butte – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Mount Hayden, Brady Peak, Hancock Butte, Kwagunt Butte.