Deadly Flash Flood Strikes Historic Phantom Ranch at Grand Canyon

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 ...

By Joanna Walters