{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Zion Lodge--Birch Creek Historic District (Boundary Increase) | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Zion Lodge, main building. - NARA - 520339.jpg | caption = Zion Lodge in 1929 | nearest_city = Springdale, Utah | coordinates = {{coord|37|15|5|N|112|57|21|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Utah#USA | architect = Underwood, Gilbert Stanley | architecture = NPS Rustic style | added = July 07, 1987 | area = {{convert|2|acre}} | mpsub = Zion National Park MRA | refnum = 86003753<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }}

'''Zion Lodge''' is located in Zion National Park, Utah, United States. The lodge was designed in 1924 as a compromise solution between its developer, the Utah Parks Company, which wanted a large hotel, and National Park Service director Stephen Mather, who desired smaller-scale development. The Utah Parks Company had been formed in 1923 as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad, and was, like many similar programs, intended to stimulate passenger rail traffic to the national parks of southwest Utah.<ref name="nrhpmra1">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=64000878}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Multiple Resources for Zion National Park|last=Jurale|first=Jim|author2=Witherall, Nancy |year=1984|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2009-09-03}}</ref>

300px|thumb|left|Newer hotel building at Zion Lodge Gilbert Stanley Underwood designed the Zion Lodge as part of a series of similar structures for the Utah Parks Company at the north rim of the Grand Canyon and at Bryce Canyon National Park. Underwood's design was more modest in scale and detailing than those at the Grand Canyon and Bryce, substituting milled lumber for whole logs in a "studs-out" style. Underwood used less stonework, in smaller pieces. The structures were designed to be more in keeping with the character of the valley floor, which at the time of construction was still inhabited by settlers. Underwood would go on to design all of the Utah Parks Company buildings in the valley, many of which are included in the Zion Lodge Historic District, which surrounds the lodge.<ref name="nrhpmra1"/>

A fire in 1966 destroyed the original main lodge building. It was rebuilt within 100 days, but the original rustic look was lost in favor of expedience in reopening the lodge. A 1990 remodel restored its original look.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.zionlodge.com/ | title = Zion Lodge | access-date = 2006-07-07}}</ref>

In addition to the main lodge building there are a number of original buildings that remain in the lodge complex. This includes guest cabins built in 1927 and 1929, employee dormitories built in 1927 and 1937, and a few support buildings. All were designed by Underwood.<ref>{{cite web | date = n.d. | url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=ut/ut0100/ut0193/data/hhdatapage.db&title2=Zion%20National%20Park,%20Springdale%20vicinity,%20Washington%20County,%20UT&recNum=0&itemLink=D?hh:61:./temp/~pp_ujov:: | title = Historic American Buildings Survey, Zion National Park | access-date = 2007-08-23}}</ref>

On April 12, 1995, a landslide blocked the Virgin River downstream from the lodge. Over a period of two hours, the river had carved away 590 feet (180&nbsp;m) of the only exit road from the canyon, trapping 450 guests and employees in the lodge. A one-lane temporary road was constructed within 24 hours to allow evacuation. Access to the lodge was restored on May 25, 1995.<ref>{{cite web | last = Mentz | first = Kevin M. | author2 = Worrell, Eric | author3 = Zanetell, F. Dave | year = 1997 | url = http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/spring97/zion.htm | title = Park Project Is a Paragon of Partnership | work = Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center | publisher = Federal Highway Administration | access-date = 2006-07-07 | archive-date = January 17, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090117192235/http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/spring97/zion.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Zion Lodge is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.<ref name=hha>{{cite web|title=Zion Lodge, a Historic Hotels of America member|url=http://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/zion-lodge/|publisher=Historic Hotels of America|access-date=March 3, 2014}}</ref>

==See also== * List of Historic Hotels of America

==References== {{reflist|22em}}

==External links== {{commons category|Zion Lodge}} * [http://www.zionlodge.com Zion Lodge - official site] * [http://www.historic-hotels-lodges.com/utah/zion-lodge/zion-lodge-tour-1.htm Zion Lodge Virtual Tour] Virtual photo tour, history, photos, and more.

{{NRHP in Zion NP}} {{National Register of Historic Places}}

Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1966 Category:Gilbert Stanley Underwood buildings Category:Hotels established in 1924 Category:Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah Category:National Register of Historic Places in Zion National Park Category:National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Utah Category:Railway hotels in the United States Category:National Park Service Rustic architecture Category:Rustic architecture in Utah Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah Category:1924 establishments in Utah Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Utah Category:Historic Hotels of America