The Grand Canyon Lodge is the only hotel on the park's North Rim, which is closed for the rest of the season due to wildfire risk. The hotel was already rebuilt once, after a kitchen fire in 1932.

Buildings at the historic lodge on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon are among dozens destroyed. A rapidly moving wildfire has engulfed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge in Arizona in the United States. The fire forced officials to close access to the Grand Canyon’s North Rim on Sunday, and residents and tourists were evacuated.

A wildfire that destroyed a historic Grand Canyon lodge is continuing to spread out of control after it had been allowed to burn for days