Hello, i want to shoot some photos and videos in Grand Canyon and can't understand do i need permission to do this?
They not included in restriction lists of stock sites.
On official site tells if shoot is commercial i need permission, but also told 1-2 people 0$. I'am confused, does anybody shoot in Grand Canyon, did you apply for permission?
I have emailed them but no answer.

i know that but they say. if 1-2 people and camera 0$)
Mayube someone have such experience since there are many photos from Grand Canyon.
so i am confused, since they don't answer.
And since i can't give them info that they need to make official permin bacuse i am not from USA, don't have a crew and insurance for filming in USA company)
I will visit like tourist but, why not to sell photos if they will be good.

I'm pretty sure what they mean is you need permission to hold big photo shoots with models, assistants and lots of equipment, where you would be in the way the public, preventing them from enjoying the scenery.

IANAL, but I've got pics of the Grand Canyon and other US parks on iS, and they're extremely paranoid about not accepting pics if there might be an issue. Still, their rules might change ...

Thanks for reply)
Your pics are old or new to understand if they still accepting these, but i don't upload to IS?
Does these pics sells?

Since i am not from US and never been before in national parks in US, it will be first experience. I saw many good photos from Grand Canyon, hope i can shoot something good too.
Basically i want with those pics to compensate cost of trip.

Since i am not from US and never been before in national parks in US, it will be first experience. I saw many good photos from Grand Canyon, hope i can shoot something good too.
Basically i want with those pics to compensate cost of trip.

Well, I guess it depends whether you're just walking in from a nearby town or flying in from halfway across the world.
I'm afraid I'm with Chichikov on this; you're just too late to the party. In the past, I have made back the value of trips, even from Scotland to Newfoundland, but these photos were taken in 2010 and sold in the heyday and were absolute luck (I was on a whalewatching trip, but we happened to pass a very pretty iceberg, a week apart (so it looked very different as it had melted betweentimes), which clearly no-one else could ever take, and these, not the whales, paid for the trip. I've paid for a couple of shorter city breaks too, but again in 2012.
Things are so different now.
Just think of all the competition. The best you can hope for is to share some of their sales.
Good luck, anyway.

Thanks all for wishing good luck, yea i also will shoot footage, and hope not only Grand Canyon.

I shoot there all the time. Its no issue unless you are doing a commercial shoot, then its permit, insurance, and all the hassle of doing that kind of thing. Agree with increasing that shooting time lapse and video will get you a better return than stills. My stills do sell but not enough to pay for more than a micro fiber cloth.

If you are shooting for stock, then it is a commercial shoot. But I'm pretty sure the park rules are meant more for larger production shoots where there's going to be a crew or equipment that could inconvenience other park visitors.

If it's just one person shooting, I would not worry about it.

I tried 3 times, maybe they will respond in future.
All like said in rules 1-2 people with tripod. there will be more of us but like regular group of tourist.
And i really don't understand why no model, every people in photo model?

we were in Utah when the govt shut down for a few days in Oct 2013 - when we drove along the major highway that runs thru Zion, there were signs that said since the govt was shut NO ONE was allowed to take pictures at any of the pullouts, etc!!

I will be in group, but not models.
like regular tourist trip with sight seeing, but want to make some photos and footage, and photos with people will be only for personal use, to show their family or so.
And I want to shoot some landscapes for stock.

That'll be OK, as presumably you won't be spending lots of time putting them into the perfect position, waiting for the perfect light, making sure their makeup and hair is perfect, assistants with reflectors etc.

EDIT:

I don't think many of the 92,392 images or 13,604 video clips of the Golden Gate Bridge on Shutterstock were taken with a $10,000 permit...



I don't think many of the 38,633 images or 7,883 video clips from Yellowstone on Shutterstock were taken with a $10,000 permit...

its for Golden Gate bridge. i think the same, this policy is so cumblesome,  its ok for large production but for stock and youtube its overkill.

Oops, missed that. 

But you are thinking WAY too much about this. Will you go with a team of 10 people with actors, cranes, dolly tracks, parked vehicles? No. Didn't think so.

You take photos/film as a tourist. You don't have to worry about permits. It does not cost $10,000 to set up a single tripod and make a time-lapse of the Golden Gate Bridge.