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The new trail was named for the Kaibab Plateau, a name suggested by J. R. Eakin, the first superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park. National Park Service Director Stephen Mather selected this name over other possibilities: Yaki Trail, indicating its descent from near Yaki Point and Phantom Trail, an option promoted by the Fred Harvey Company since the trail descends directly to their Phantom Ranch.

The National Park Service finally took control of the Bright Angel Trail in 1928, when Coconino County traded it in return for the park service funding a new road from Williams to Grand Canyon Village. The park service then reconstructed the Bright Angel Trail between 1929 and 1938; they decreased the grade of the trail, including the section above the 3-Mile Resthouse (1930–1931) and through the Devils Corkscrew (1929), built a trail alongside the wash upstream of Indian Garden (1930), routed the trail through the Tapeats Narrows (1929), and built a trail alongside Pipe Creek (1938). The trail had previously dropped down the Bright Angel Fault at nearly three times the grade it is today, simply followed the Garden Creek wash, diverted east of Garden Creek on the Tonto Platform, dropped down the Salt Creek Drainage (the seep you cross toward the top of Devils Corkscrew), and continued nearly straight down to Pipe Creek. The old, much steeper switchbacks can still be seen as you descend the Devils Corkscrew to Pipe Creek.