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Osiris Temple

A temple-shaped butte named for an Egyptian god, framed from the Hermit Trail

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Grand Canyon interior, AZ

About

Osiris Temple is a sandstone-and-shale butte rising to 6,613 feet in the canyon's interior, southwest of Shiva Temple in the Upper Trinity Creek drainage. It's not a hike in itself but a formation you look at from the South Rim's Hermit Trail, where Lookout Point offers a clear view north across Ninetyfour Mile Creek to the temple's stacked, terraced profile. The name comes from the Egyptian god Osiris, recorded in a 1928 U.S. government publication on canyon nomenclature — part of the same naming convention that gave nearby buttes like Isis Temple and Shiva Temple their titles.

What you're looking at

  • Part of a chain of three connected landforms — Osiris Temple, Horus Temple, and Tower of Set — descending south toward Granite Gorge and the Colorado River
  • A remnant of the Kaibab Plateau tableland, geologically related to the North Rim rather than the rim you're standing on
  • Best seen from Lookout Point, roughly 1.5 miles past Santa Maria Spring on the Hermit Trail

Best Time to View It

Since viewing requires hiking partway down Hermit Trail, the same seasonal heat considerations apply as for that trail generally — cooler months are more comfortable for the trip.

Good to Know

  • Part of a chain of three connected landforms — Osiris Temple, Horus Temple, and Tower of Set — descending south toward Granite Gorge and the Colorado River.
  • A remnant of the Kaibab Plateau tableland, geologically related to the North Rim rather than the rim you're standing on.
  • Part of the same naming convention that gave nearby buttes like Isis Temple and Shiva Temple their titles.

Where to See Osiris Temple

Best seen from Lookout Point, roughly 1.5 miles past Santa Maria Spring on the Hermit Trail — this requires hiking a meaningful distance down Hermit Trail, not a rim-side stop.

What You're Looking At: Osiris Temple

Osiris Temple is a sandstone-and-shale butte rising to 6,613 feet in the canyon's interior, southwest of Shiva Temple in the Upper Trinity Creek drainage. It's not a hike in itself but a formation you look at from the South Rim's Hermit Trail, where Lookout Point offers a clear view north across Ninetyfour Mile Creek to the temple's stacked, terraced profile. The name comes from the Egyptian god Osiris, recorded in a 1928 U.S. government publication on canyon nomenclature.

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