Phantom Ranch

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Phantom Ranch

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end of Bright Angel trailway at the grand Canyon, Arizona, United States

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don't want to camp at the bottom of the Canyon... try here! Jan 22, 2004
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Phantom Ranch is the only lodging facility in the canyon. If you come here make reservations about a year in advance...it's needed more with men than it is with women.

The site that Phantom Ranch is on used by Native Americans; pit houses and a ceremonial kiva dating from about 1050 AD have been found there when walking around you can see the Indian drawings.

At the bottom of the Canyon you come upon small cabins and people milling around lauging outside. You're just excited to sit down and take a load off after the long hike.

There are two types of lodgings and two types of meal accomodations. One type of lodging is a cabin. In the cabin you get your own privacy with your family... you get your own cabin...but there are not bathrooms in the cabin so you must use communal bathrooms for showers and neccessity purposes. In the dorms you have 5 bunk beds where they are separated into male and female dorms. The beds were in small quarters and you felt clostrophobic...but the beds were really comfortable. I slept so well that night, I woke up so refreshed. I even woke up before the sun came up and was not able to go back to sleep...and if anybody knows me they know that I don't wake up before 11 let alone before sun rise! In the dorms you don't have the privacy but you do have a bathroom inside the building.

For meal accomodations you can get a stew dinner option or the steak dinner option. the steak is $10 more and I highly recommend that. Everyone but one person in our group got the stew and Dave looked so happy after he got his steak. We had 2 meals of stew and it sort of got bland after a while. If I were to do it over again I would have gotten atleast one night with the stew. You also get a bagged lunch provided each day too with bagels, summer sausage and some cheese and you can also get breakfast.



Room Type Summer 2007
Dorm, per person $34.16
Breakfast, per person $17.50
Sack Lunch, per person $10.14
Steak Dinner, per person $35.61
Veggie Dinner, per person $22.60
Hiker's Stew Dinner, per person $22.60
Duffel Service $60.83 each way



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Oct 28, 2009
We were heading for Phantom Ranch. Which was 14 miles away with 5,700-foot descent.   Along the way stopping at Roaring Springs, Cottonwood Camp, Ribbon Falls , several other stops finality arriving at Phantom Ranch at 3:30pm .   What a hike!!!!. Spending two nights at the ranchGrand Canyon
Jan 22, 2004
  The one thing you can plan on getting from your trip to Phantom Ranch is some family fun time.  See my family isn't that tight and family oriented.  Sure we talk to each other but nothing to the extreme!  But they have what's called happy hour where you can go and play… to get energy one must exert energy
Jan 21, 2004
I must be close to Phantom Ranch... errr... another false alarm.  I still have a couple of miles to go til I get to the bridge.  when I do see the bridge I'm the happiest person in the world... but then I see what I have to hike… starting to hit rock bottom!
Aug 14, 2009
3 miles from Phantom Ranch up the North Kaibab Trail, another path forks off to the east, climbing the canyon side via a series of switchbacks, up to the Tonto bench, which it follows for nearly 10 miles further east, around several small ravines and into the larger… WE ARE HERE!!!!
Jul 19, 2008
  Yesterday we rode down from the top rim to the Colorado River and arrived at the famous Phantom Ranch after about 5 hours on our loyal, trustworthy and sure-footed (sometimes stubborn) mules.  We spent the day and night at the ranch, great dinner, swam in the Colorado, and played cards in the Canteen.  We didn't want to leave… Mule ride to Phanton Ranch--the bottom of the Grand Canyon

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