Grand Canyon Lodge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
View of the Grand Canyon from the Lodge
Location:	Bright Angel Point, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Coordinates:	36°11′57″N 112°3′7″W / 36.19917°N 112.05194°W / 36.19917; -112.05194
Built/Founded:	1927
Architect:	Gilbert S. Underwood; Et al.
Architectural style(s):	Other
Governing body:	NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Added to NRHP:	September 02, 1982[1]
Designated NHL:	May 28, 1987[2]
NRHP Reference#:	82001721

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 also designed The Ahwahnee, Bryce Canyon Lodge, and Zion Lodge.

Grand Canyon Lodge is a resort complex consisting of a Main Lodge building, 23 deluxe cabins, and 91 standard cabins, some of which were moved to the north rim campground in 1940. Grand Canyon Lodge is the most intact rustic hotel development in the National Park system remaining from the railroad era. Constructed of native Kaibab limestone and timber, the complex was designed to harmonize with its rocky and forested setting.

A view of the Main Lodge from below, in 2006

When constructed in 1927-28, Grand Canyon Lodge consisted of the Main Lodge building (burned in 1932, but rebuilt in 1936-37), 20 deluxe cabins, and 100 standard cabins. 20 additional cabins were constructed in 1928. Gilbert Stanley Underwood was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad to design resort hotels at Zion, Bryce Canyon, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon. The most important features of the Grand Canyon Lodge complex were based on Underwood's design. He purposefully designed the stonework to appear like natural rock outcroppings. The main lodge building is banked into the side of the canyon and is the complex's central feature.^[3]

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.^[2][4][5]

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• Media related to Grand Canyon Lodge at Wikimedia Commons
• Architecture in the Parks: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study: Grand Canyon LOdge, by Laura Soullière Harrison, 1986, at National Park Service.
• Grand Canyon Lodge, Main Lodge, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, AZ: 3 drawings, 26 photos, 1 data page, 2 photo caption pages, at Historic American Building Survey
• Grand Canyon Lodge Photos