Remote Grand Canyon lodge hit by deadly flash flood boasts fabled history

Phantom Ranch, set up by Teddy Roosevelt, has welcomed exhausted hikers to its famed cabins for over a century Two dead and at least 15 missing in Grand Canyon flash flood Phantom Ranch has been a solitary refuge visited by some of the most famous names of history.

More typically, it’s been a beacon for the half-collapsed, exhausted and overheated hikers trudging down the Grand Canyon for more than a century.

The sole lodge at the very bottom of the Grand Canyon, the cabins long had a near mythical reputation.

Located along the Bright Angel Creek, which tumbles into the mighty Colorado River at the base of the canyon, they served as a reminder of the long history of one of America’s most spectacular but savage environments.

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