Parrish Canyon, where a 45 minute walk and a mountain day share a car park.

The landmark at the turn is a water tank, and it is how people here give directions. Parrish Lane runs 1.2 miles east from the freeway and dead ends at a T at 700 East. From that junction the road goes up past the tank to a graded dirt parking area, and there is roadside parking near the tank as well. Two published accounts describe this slightly differently, one sending you a short distance left to the lot and the other a quarter mile further south along the road toward a small reservoir, so the workable version is that there is a graded dirt lot at the top of Parrish Lane with roadside parking near the water tank, and both get used.

There is an unlikely piece of corroboration for that geography, and it comes out of a fireworks ordinance. Centerville Municipal Code 7.07.160 describes the restricted east bench area as beginning at Pages Lane and 700 East and running north on 700 East to 100 South and then west to 600 East. That puts 700 East on the bench between exactly the two streets the Parrish and Deuel trailheads sit on, in a document the city adopted for a completely unrelated reason. It is the closest thing to an issuer published trailhead location that exists for this town.

The slope above is dry, open and faces south, which is the whole character of the hike. The trail account that measured the short routes carries a warning that outings in these foothills, and the Parrish Sunset hike specifically, can have rattlesnakes during warmer months, and advises keeping an eye on children and pets or walking it in cooler seasons. It is the only snake note in any Davis County material this project has gathered, and the reason it attaches here rather than to the shaded creek bottom two blocks south is not mysterious.

Share the lower canyon. There is a documented downhill mountain bike line here, catalogued on the trail databases as Parrish Creek Lower DH. Whether any land manager sanctions it was not established, so this page does not direct anyone to ride it. What it does say is the useful half: if you are walking down the lower Parrish trail, expect bikes moving quickly and do not assume you will hear one first.

The rock art needs its own sentence. There is a pictograph panel on the lower trail under a rock overhang. Pigment is destroyed by the oils on skin, and touching, chalking, tracing or otherwise disturbing rock art is illegal under both federal and state law. That the panel exists is the interesting fact and it belongs on this page. Route finding directions to it are already published elsewhere by people who chose to, and they will not be amplified here.

The single best argument for this trail is the one the long descriptions bury. Under two miles of walking from a dead end street puts a person on a named viewpoint six hundred feet above the town, looking straight west across the Great Salt Lake at Antelope Island. That is an after work walk rather than an expedition, and it is available roughly nine months of the year. The island itself, its causeway, its entrance fee and its October bison roundup are the county's to explain, on the island page, and the honest relationship between the two is that Centerville is the place you see it from and Syracuse is the place you drive onto it.

The trade against that is the exposure. South facing bench with no canopy means this is a cold weather and shoulder season trail as much as a summer one, and the practical result is that a July afternoon here is genuinely unpleasant while a February morning is often perfect. It is also the reason the snake note attaches to this hillside and not to the creek bottom two blocks away. Neither of those is a warning against the trail. They are the trail's character, and knowing it is the difference between a good hour and a bad one.

For a household weighing a top street address, the relevant facts are narrow and checkable. Two trailheads are inside a five to nine minute drive, or a walk from the highest streets. There is no fee, no permit and no gate at either. There is also no restroom, no water and no rubbish collection, and the parking is dirt. And the bench above 700 East falls inside the mapped area where the city prohibits personal fireworks every July, which is set out with the rest of the address level homework on the moving here page.

The last thing to say is what this page has stayed out of. Skyline Drive, the gate that closes it for half the year, the terraces cut across the face of the range in the 1930s and the eight canyon inventory this one belongs to are all written once for the county on the Davis canyons page. This page names the crest road as the place the trail arrives and stops there, which is the correct amount for a city page to say about a subject the region already owns.