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#015 - Grand Canyon, Part 3: Where to Stay | El Tovar, Phantom Ranch & South Rim Camping
At the Grand Canyon, the where-to-sleep question has real range — from a National Historic Landmark on the rim where you can watch the sunset light the canyon from an dining room built in 1905, to a rustic cabin at the bottom that people spend years trying to book. This closes out the Wildlands Grand Canyon trilogy.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, walks through every South Rim option and the two separate booking systems that trip people up. The historic lodges: El Tovar, the crown jewel, bookable thirteen months out, plus Bright Angel, Kachina, Thunderbird, Maswik, and Yavapai…
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