GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK — At the Mather Point overlook jutting out over Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim, plumes of black smoke obscured by a general haze 10 miles in the distance ...

The lodge opened in 1937 and was the only hotel inside the national park's boundaries on the North Rim. It was a National Historic Landmark.

The sky still showed patches of blue. By the time the sandwich shop closed its doors for the day at 5 p.m., the sun over the South Rim had been obscured by encroaching smoke.