"With continued active fire behavior and ongoing risks to personnel and infrastructure, the North Rim will remain closed to all visitor access for the remainder of the 2025 season," the press release...

U.S. land managers are racing the clock as hotter, drier weather raises the risk of wildfires in the nation’s overgrown forests with each passing year.

"As stewards of some of our country's most beloved national treasures, we are devastated by the loss of the Grand Canyon Lodge," Aramark, the company that operated the lodge, said in a statement.

What does one do when a carefully planned fire turns into an inferno that redefines a fabled landscape? That’s the dilemma facing the North Rim of the Grand Canyon after the Dragon Bravo Fire, which began as a controlled burn but turned into a raging force,