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North Kaibab Trail
The least visited but most difficult of the three maintained trails at Grand Canyon.
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Trail Details
American Indians and prospectors originally used a route now followed by the Old Kaibab Trail. Mapmaker Francois Matthes improved the trail during his Grand Canyon survey in 1902. A year later, David Rust established a tourist camp at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek. Rust constructed a cable crossing over the Colorado River a few years later, linking the North and South Rims. The Fred Harvey Company acquired Rust’s holdings and built Phantom Ranch, a tourist lodge named after nearby Phantom Creek.
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