{"id":78127,"date":"2026-08-31T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/remote-grand-canyon-lodge-hit-by-deadly-flash-flood-boasts-fabled-history\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:56:10","slug":"remote-grand-canyon-lodge-hit-by-deadly-flash-flood-boasts-fabled-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/remote-grand-canyon-lodge-hit-by-deadly-flash-flood-boasts-fabled-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Grand Canyon lodge hit by deadly flash flood boasts fabled history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phantom Ranch, set up by Teddy Roosevelt, has welcomed exhausted hikers to its famed cabins for over a century<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/31\/grand-canyon-storms-flash-flood\">Two dead and nearly 80 rescued after Grand Canyon flash flood<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phantom Ranch has been a solitary refuge visited by some of the most famous names of history. More typically, it\u2019s been a beacon for the half-collapsed, exhausted and overheated hikers trudging down the Grand Canyon for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>The sole lodge at the very bottom of the Grand Canyon, the cabins long had a near mythical reputation. Located along the Bright Angel Creek, which tumbles into the mighty Colorado River at the base of the canyon, they served as a reminder of the long history of one of America\u2019s most spectacular but savage environments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/31\/grand-canyon-flash-flood-phantom-ranch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phantom Ranch, set up by Teddy Roosevelt, has welcomed exhausted hikers to its famed cabins for over a century Two dead and nearly 80 rescued after Grand Canyon flash flood Phantom Ranch has been a solitary refuge visited by some of the most famous names of history. More typically, it\u2019s been a beacon for the &#8230; <a title=\"Remote Grand Canyon lodge hit by deadly flash flood boasts fabled history\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/remote-grand-canyon-lodge-hit-by-deadly-flash-flood-boasts-fabled-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Remote Grand Canyon lodge hit by deadly flash flood boasts fabled history\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}