Hikes for Your Personality

Couch Potato: The Living Room – University of Utah & Fort Douglas

The easy-access trailhead makes The Living Room a favorite with college
students and people who work in the research park below. It can be a quick
workout or a romantic place to watch the sunset, but either way the trail is
well traveled. The trail cuts off from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail into
George’s Hollow directly behind research park.

Flower Lover: Brighton Lakes Tour – Big Cottonwood Canyon

Brighton Lakes Trail passes three lakes: Lake Mary, Martha and Catherine.
Before you come to the first lake, there is also a spur to Dog Lake, which sits
only 500 feet off the main trail. Known for its lush summer wildflowers, this
area is the home of the Wasatch Flower Festival and during late July and early
August wild flowers typically line the path. This is a popular, family-friendly
hike and you will find people of all ages making the trek to these scenic
alpine lakes.

Stroller Pusher: Kays Creek Parkway – Layton

This Layton city park contains 4.5 miles of paved trails that run next to 100
acres of sometimes dense vegetation and more open marshland. Although
just minutes from large subdivisions and usy streets, the park is a quiet
retreat in the bottom of Hobbs Hollow. A quick retreat from the bustle of city
life with 4 trailheads found in different neighborhoods.

Workout Woman: Lake Blanche – Big Cottonwood Canyon

This is not the road less traveled. Though the climb is strenuous, the
trailhead is easily accessible, the trail straightforward and the destination a
scenic glacial tran at the base of Sundial Peak ,which lords over the cirque
below. One of the area’s more popular hikes, it provides a climb through
shaded forst, up canyon meadows and over glacially cut quartzite to 3 lakes
at the top of the canyon: Lake Blanche and her sister lakes, Lillian and
Florence to the west. Slabs of quartzite and the surrounding forests allow
space and time for reflection and exploration once you reach the lakes at the
top.

Wild for Waterfalls: Ghost Falls – Draper

Ghost Falls can be accessed from every trailhead in the Corner Canyon
system of trails found behind the LDS Draper temple, but when accessed
from the Ghost Falls trailhead, the hike is a pleasant downhill stroll, complete
with shade, gurgling springs, and seasonal wildflowers. Short and sweet, with
a scenic waterfall at the end, this trail is perfect as a family hike with
youngsters or a quick forested get-away. Ghost falls is so named because no
one knows where the water from the falls comes from. Natural springs in
the mountain apparently surface here to form the falls.

Dog Walker: Dog Lake from Mill Creek Canyon – Mill Creek Canyon

Dog Lake is a centerpiece in the maze of trails that run between MillCreek
and Big Cottonwood Canyons. The wide, packed trail from MillCreek is easy
to follow and climbs amidst the lush alpine environment. Big Cottonwood
Canyon is a watershed canyon, so approaching from Mill Creek Canyon is the
only route dogs are allowed to take to the lake.