Holbrook Canyon, and the warning the county prints itself.

On the east side of Bountiful Boulevard just south of the Bountiful Utah Temple, marked by a large brown sign reading Sessions Mountain and Holbrook Canyon Trail. From downtown the route is north on Main to 400 North, east on 400 North straight through the 1300 East stop sign, and the road bends south and becomes Bountiful Boulevard, with the trailhead and its parking on the left just past the temple. Mapping services address it with a shoreline trail street number that is a data artefact rather than a postal address.

Davis County publishes 4.7 miles and rates the trail moderate to difficult. Figures near ten miles with about 3,200 feet of gain also circulate, and they describe something different: a full push to the ridge above the canyon rather than the canyon walk itself. Those two numbers should never be blended, because the average describes neither objective. Decide which walk you are doing before you leave the car park, and take the county figure as the standard one.

Davis County says so itself. Its trail inventory notes that the trail crosses the creek several times and warns that sections are hard to follow, which is unusually candid language for a land manager and the reason it is worth repeating. The walking is a steady canyon climb rather than anything technical. The difficulty is route finding, particularly around the creek crossings where the tread changes sides, and it is a genuinely different proposition from the graded trail out of the next canyon north.

No canyon specific restriction is published by any issuer, and Davis County's general statement is that dogs are allowed on most of its trails, leashed. One widely shared write up describes this as a place where dogs run off leash. Nothing from a land manager supports that, it contradicts the county's own leash statement, and repeating it would be irresponsible, so this page does not. Treat the leash as the rule here, the same as everywhere else on this bench.

Not yet, and possibly. Bountiful City states that it is working with the U.S. Forest Service to designate three trails exclusively for hikers and horseback riders: pending Forest Service approval, Holbrook Trail and Kenny Creek Trail would become dedicated boot and hoof trails and a new Big Rock Trail would be built for hikers only. As of 15 August 2026 that was still pending, nothing had changed on the ground, and a rider on the trail today is doing nothing wrong. Re-check the city trails page every six months.

Late summer and early autumn, because the creek crossings are the variable. At high flow during the spring runoff in May and June they are a genuine obstacle and turning around is the sensible answer. By August they are a step across and the same route is straightforward. The other consideration is the profile: the trail drops roughly a hundred feet from the parking area into the canyon before it starts climbing, so the return leg finishes uphill at the end of the day rather than the beginning.

A place in Holbrook Canyon named in accounts of the Bountiful Tabernacle's construction as the source of its timber. Judson Tolman, who had charge of getting timber for the building out of the canyons east of town, found the trees there. The Tabernacle was begun in 1857, suspended that year during the Utah Expedition and finished in 1863, with roof timbers fastened by wooden pegs. The name is documented in historical accounts rather than by a land manager and could not be confirmed on a current city trail map, so do not expect a sign.

It has a completed section that is not signed as one. In 2023 Bountiful finished roughly six miles of new shoreline trail between Holbrook and Ward Canyons but did not sign it as official Bonneville Shoreline Trail, because access trails at either end had not been secured across private property. A separate Sessions Mountain segment from Ward Canyon to Mueller Park is planned at eight miles, with a Utah Outdoor Recreation grant awarded in 2022 to begin developing the city's mountain property. Announced is not built.

They are different rather than ranked. Mueller Park is a developed Forest Service site with a gate that opens at seven, flush toilets, drinking water, eighteen group picnic sites and motorised use permitted on the trail. Holbrook has a brown sign, a creek crossed several times, a county warning about route finding and far fewer people on it. The genuinely unusual thing is that one city holds both within three road miles of its downtown, along with a third canyon mouth at the end of Canyon Creek Road.