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Bright Angel Lodge is a historic hotel complex on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, designed by Mary Jane Colter and completed in 1935 as a carefully landscaped replacement for one of the rim’s earliest tourist accommodations. Its history reaches back to James Thurber’s 1896 hotel at the head of the Bright Angel Trail and the nearby O’Neill’s Camp, later expanded into Bright Angel Hotel and Bright Angel Camps. Colter preserved key older structures, including the O’Neill Cabin and Red Horse Station, while creating a rustic lodge and cabins that harmonized with the canyon. A defining property in Grand Canyon Village, it remains an active historic lodging place.
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Grand Canyon Village, Arizona · United States
