Explore the best rated trails in Mount Olympus, UT, whether you're looking for an easy walking trail or a bike trail like the Mapleton Lateral Canal Trail and Hobble Creek Bike Path . With more than 42 trails covering 321 miles you're bound to find a perfect trail for you. Click on any trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Inbetween gates and street crossings, this is a beautiful trail.
We really enjoy riding this trail. It’s wide, dashed center line (seems to help people stay in their lane), miles of riding without crossing roads. Other users are typically friendly and have good trail etiquette. Links to other trails. A couple drawbacks - very little shade, not many restrooms.
I rode my street bike from the Triumph trailhead south to just past MM 15 and back. The grade is slightly uphill as you go upstream (south) and downhill heading back, so it's an easy ride. I saw horses, big-horn sheep, and pronghorn antelope.
My main issue is that the signage makes it difficult to be sure which segment is the main Jordan River trail. There are a lot of branches, and I got lost a couple of times, but Google Maps got me back on course. The pavement in the older sections is a little bumpy at the joints.
Still, a worthwhile ride.
We started on the north end of the trail. It was mostly flat, paved, and shaded after a mile in. We enjoyed stopping at the waterfall and went about 6 miles before turning around. I went with a 5 y/o and 9 y/o and they had a blast.
This has a nice paved trail. It is steep in some areas but our electric bikes did fine. Lots of people walking and it was wonderful. Short ride for electric but probably average for regular bikes or walking.
Mostly city trail turns into industrial not much to see.
This was a great trail to ride and the scenery is amazing. Definitely will ride it many more times.
The numbers of ebikes traveling at high speeds on this trail has increased significantly. There have been fast cyclists on the trails for years but at least they were controlled by human muscle power. You now have an ebike going VERY fast only 2 feet from a pedestrian. One misstep from either and its going to be a very bad accident. I can see no attempt to control the type or speeds of the ebikes.
The road is smooth but there is absolutely no shade.
Stayed at SLC KOA-ride down side street out of RV Park to the Little Cottonwood Park-can catch trail either north or south. We stayed and rode here in Oct of 2024-the south direction was blocked off at the time so we rode north. Cottonwood Park was a big homeless encampment but all that is cleared out now! Riding north is along the river for 5 miles and then it joins the Legacy Parkway Trail - it's just OK - BUT this year the north was blocked off so we were able to go south on the trail from Cottonwood Park. What a great ride. Really right on the water-lots of shade and curving path. Many parks and benches to stop at. Almost no homeless/aimless wanderers. We saw active police/city presence on the trail. There was a field off the trail that had 3 tents on it and a police car sitting there. By the time we returned the City was there with truck&trailer and had removed the encampment. Twice we saw a patrol car actually on the trail inching along checking for homeless. So this ride felt safer than our ride last October. We have never been bothered by the homeless although I know it can happen. We have ridden many trails with this problem (Tucson and CA) particularly. We liked this ride so much stayed an extra day and did it again. We only rode 12 miles down and then back-lots more miles we were not able to do.
We stayed at Riverside RV Resort. Ride 0.4 mile from the RV park on Cottonwood St (no traffic) and you are the southern start of the trail. The first 2 miles are dirt (good dirt) smoother than some parts of the trail! Really great ride along the river. The Trail has some really smooth sections/some with pesky tree root upheavals/some with cracks. But it has all the things I love about good trails: lots of shade/hugs the river (beautiful)/ plank bridges back and forth across the river/NOT straight-lots of beautiful winding curves/lots to look at-flowers, ducks,geese. IMO not a high speed trail-just a cruiser due to some trail conditions. But we liked it so much stayed an extra day and rode it again.
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