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Grand Canyon National Park Lodge; Grand Canyon Live Webcams (Bright Angel Trail, Kolb Studio, South Entrance) "Grand Canyon National Park". The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Parks-Grand Canyon. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Grand Canyon Village, Coconino County, AZ:
Bright Angel Lodge is a hotel complex at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Designed by architect Mary Jane Colter , the lodge is a complex of cabins around a central lodge building, directly on the edge of the canyon.
Two trails cross or join the Bright Angel Trail, the first being an intersection with the Tonto Trail at Havasupai Gardens, leading toward the Monument Use Area to the west, and to the South Kaibab Trail 4.7 miles (7.6 km) to the east. The second is the River Trail, which officially begins when the Bright Angel Trail reaches the Colorado River ...
Initial development was centered on the El Tovar Hotel and the Bright Angel Lodge, both concessioner-operated facilities. The El Tovar was opened in 1905 as a destination hotel on the canyon rim by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, who owned the Grand Canyon spur. A new train depot was built next to the hotel by the railway in 1909.
The shallow-pitched roof is covered with wood shingles. The cabin is connected to other lodge buildings using compatible, unobtrusive materials, and has been cited as an early example of an adaptive reuse of a historic structure. The cabin is one of the guest accommodations of the Bright Angel lodge. [2]
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The Grand Canyon Lodge is a hotel and cabins complex at Bright Angel Point on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood , who designed a number of other hotels in national parks for the Utah Parks Company and other concessioners.
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