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@ Mather Point (near Grand Canyon Village & Visitor Center) // South Rim
The rock formation "Isis Temple" is part of an uplifted, and sub-faulted block (about 3.5 mi / 5.6 km long and 2.0 mi / 3.2 km wide, with a sub-peak landform, The "Isis" prominence is composed of erosion resistant cliff-forming Coconino Sandstone.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Grand Canyon in 1903. An avid outdoorsman and staunch conservationist, Roosevelt established the Grand Canyon Game Preserve on November 28, 1906. Livestock grazing was reduced, but predators such as mountain lions, eagles, and wolves were eradicated. Roosevelt along with other members of his conservation group, the Boone and Crockett Club helped form the National Parks Association, which in turn lobbied for the Antiquities Act of 1906 which gave Roosevelt the power to create national monuments. Once the act was passed, Roosevelt immediately added adjacent national forest lands and redesignated the preserve a U.S. National Monument on January 11, 1908. Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U.S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919.
The view to the north is of the deep canyon of Bright Angel Creek, which separates the Kaibab Plateau on the left from the Walhalla Plateau on the east. On the left flank of Bright Angel Canyon, slightly to the left of Bright Angel Point, is Grand Canyon Lodge, the main North Rim lodging. Near the creek's confluence with the Colorado, the Kaibab Suspension Bridge, built in 1928, spans the Colorado at a height of 18 meters and a length of 134 meters. It connects the Bright Angel Trail and the South Kaibab Trail on the south side with the North Kaibab Trail along Bright Angel Canyon on the North Rim.
Phantom Ranch's elevation is 2,460 feet / 750 m; that is about 4,800 feet / 1,500 m lower than the South Rim and about 5,800 feet / 1,800 m lower than the North Rim.
In the east fork of Bright Angel Creek and Colorado, David Rust, who had previously spent 4 years creating the North Kaibab Trail, built Rust Camp shortly after 1900. This was renamed Roosevelt Camp in 1913 and finally received its present name in 1922 after remodeling to plans by Mary Jane Colter: Phantom Ranch.