Designed by Mary Jane Colter

6 days / 1753 miles / 28 hours 25 minutes

"The rooms she created were paradoxical: both entirely faux and deeply, richly authentic, crammed with genuine pieces of native art and crafts set amid pre-weathered, deliberately distressed beams, wooden floors, and brick fireplaces." - Appetite for America by Stephen Fried

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Day 1
- Kansas Union Station
  "The designs for all interior spaces done by Mary Colter."
- 9:00 am - 0.0 miles / - 9:01 am
  Pierpont's
- 10:01 am - 335.8 miles / 5 hours 11 minutes - 3:13 pm
  El Vaquero - Depot Theater Company
  "The Depot Theater Company restored the original hotel lobby space to its absolute Mary Colter-ish perfection."
- 4:13 pm - 419.6 miles / 6 hours 33 minutes - 9:47 pm
  La Fonda
Day 2
- La Fonda
  "A combination of Pueblo and Spanish simplicity that brought new clarity to what become the Santa Fe Style."
- 9:00 am - 0.0 miles / - 9:01 am
  La Plazuela
- 9:01 am - 271.0 miles / 4 hours - 12:02 pm
  Painted Desert Inn
- 1:02 pm - 59.8 miles / 56 minutes - 1:59 pm
  The Turquoise Room
- 2:59 pm - 0.5 miles / 3 minutes - 3:03 pm
  La Posada
Day 3
- La Posada
  "A faux-Spanish hacienda purposely designed to have a kind of architectural multiple personality disorder - it wasn't designed to match itself."
- 9:00 am - 127.0 miles / 2 hours 9 minutes - 11:10 am
  Desert View Watchtower
  "An Indian 'ruin' of a watchtower, some five stories high, with its own 'kiva'. A phantasmagoria of abstract architecture and art."
- 12:10 pm - 24.2 miles / 40 minutes - 12:51 pm
  Hopi House
  "A full-scale, brand-new, eight-hundred-year-old pueblo, authentic to the smallest detail."
- 1:51 pm - 7.9 miles / 28 minutes - 2:20 pm
  Hermit's Rest
  "A structure that appears to have been sitting there, undiscovered, for decades - designed to look like the secret home of one of the Grand Canyon hermits."
- 3:20 pm - 8.5 miles / 28 minutes - 3:49 pm
  Lookout Studio
  "Faux lookout point being one of the few tourist attractions on earth where you hope for thunderstorms."
- 4:49 pm - 1.3 miles / 6 minutes - 4:56 pm
  Bright Angel Lodge
Day 4
- Bright Angel Lodge
  "Lounge with Mary Colter's famous geological fireplace."
- 9:00 am - 2.7 miles / 10 minutes - 9:11 am
  Phantom Ranch
Day 5
- Phantom Ranch
  "A hardscrabble lodge and cabin hotel for the bottom of the Grand Canyon."
- 6:00 pm - 59.6 miles / an hour 7 minutes - 7:08 pm
  Fray Marcos - Grand Canyon Railway Hotel
Day 6
- Fray Marcos - Grand Canyon Railway Hotel
- 9:00 am - 320.2 miles / 4 hours 37 minutes - 1:38 pm
  Casa del Desierto
- 2:38 pm - 114.6 miles / an hour 48 minutes - 4:27 pm
  Los Angeles Union Station
  "Colter designed a dazzling floor: a block-long Navajo blanket made of linoleum tiles"
- 5:27 pm - 0.1 miles / a minute - 5:29 pm
  Traxx Restaurant and Bar