Mather Point is a 7,119 foot (2,170 m)-cliff-elevation Point located in the central Grand Canyon, Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. It was named in honor of Stephen Tyng Mather, an American industrialist and conservationist.

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Mather Point
Highest point
Elevation	7,119 ft (2,170 m)[1]
Prominence	450 ft (140 m)
Parent peak	Yaki Point (7,260 ft)
Isolation	1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Coordinates	36.0616497°N 112.1079463°W / 36.0616497; -112.1079463[2]
Naming
Etymology	Stephen Tyng Mather
Geography
Mather Point Location in Arizona Show map of Arizona Mather Point Mather Point (the United States) Show map of the United States
Location	Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent range	Kaibab Plateau Coconino Plateau
Topo map	USGS Phantom Ranch
Geology
Age of rock	Permian down to Cambrian
Mountain type	sedimentary rock: limestone-(prominence-cliff), mudstone, siltstone, sandstone
Type of rock	Kaibab Limestone-(prominence), Toroweap Formation, Coconino Sandstone, Hermit Shale, Supai Group, Redwall Limestone Tonto Group

It is located about 2.0 miles east-northeast of Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim. It is about 0.75 miles east of Yavapai Point, its closest scenic viewpoint neighbor, and it lies about 1.5 miles west of Yaki Point, across Upper Pipe Creek Canyon. Pipe Creek enters Lower Garden Creek, and the Bright Angel Trail descends there to cross the Colorado River and go up Bright Angel Canyon. The viewpoints of Mather Point, (and Yavapai Point), look northwards (across Granite Gorge), up Bright Angel Canyon, and view the prominences that align it, especially the nearest of Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid, and on the east, Zoroaster Temple, with Demaray Point, Bradley Point, and Sumner Butte.

Mather Point is about 1.0 mi north of Arizona Rt 64, South Rim Drive, the access road along the South Rim. The Rim Trail of the South Rim traverses through the major points of the South Rim, including Mather Point.

Mather Point is composed of horizontally-layered cliff-former Kaibab Limestone, and is mostly buff, or tan-white. The rock at the point is distinctive with its limestone erosion-holes, and is broken into large blocks. Mather Point is also composed of Kaibab upon Toroweap Formation slopes, upon white cliffs of Coconino Sandstone.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mather Point.

• Aerial view: Mather Point, Mountainzone
• Mather Point, (text & photos), Americansouthwest.net